Law and Gospel (772)
  1. Caleb and Dr. Paulson are joined by John Hoyum to discuss Isaiah's Amen gloss.
  2. The command to love those nearby is as challenging as it is simple. Jesus took the initiative to come near to us in loving sacrifice.
  3. The Gospel is a precious and comforting word. It comforts and refreshes the sad heart. It wrestles it out of the jaws of death and hell and transports it to the certain hope of eternal life, through faith in Christ.
  4. Imperatives are good for many things. Luther said the Law is good, but precisely because it is good, it has become poison and death to the bad. The Law does not give life but evaluates it, and we encounter day in and day out its negative evaluation of us.
  5. As God in his mercy enacted his plan to redeem his loved ones, he took them step by step. In the process of redeeming every part of us, he sent us prophets like Moses.
  6. The church is of no use to this world if all we do is ape the world’s rhetoric, antics, and actions. We are a unique community with a unique message. Here are four reasons I'm convinced that 2020 is a great year for the church.
  7. What does it mean that holding to Jesus’ teaching will set us free? Which teaching? What will we be set free from?
  8. During the Reformation, the gift of the gospel was often described as a promise. Caleb and Scott sit down with Steve Paulson to talk about what the promise is, and how it is received.
  9. Viewing the Bible as literature is an essential and natural way of engaging the text. But there are also ways in which this practice can get lost.
  10. In this episode Gretchen and Katie start at the beginning. In this episode they each share a bit about their faith, and why the law and gospel mean so much to them.
  11. The gospel fires up within us the gratitude, joy, and love to pull off what the law never could get us to do.
  12. We’ve become experts at making deals with God.
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