Law and Gospel (773)
  1. Today, people often bemoan the loss of children in the church.
  2. But when God's Word of Law and Gospel are tuned up, when they're properly distinguished, then Jesus' words rain down on us like thunderbolts.
  3. Last year, a friend I follow tweeted, “Calling yourself a sinner is spitting on all the work that Jesus did to make you a saint.”
  4. Among the things that perturb me about modern Christianity is our residual clinging to a sort of “Christian-karma.”
  5. God coming to us at Christmas encapsulates the essence of Christian faith: we don't make ourselves strong and then work our way up to a strong God.
  6. If the devil took over a church, I suspect it would be bursting at the seams every Sunday, with smiling faces, clean noses, straight morals, conservative voting, institutional fidelity
  7. It’s time to call bull on a theology the dominates Christianity.
  8. When we explain away God’s Word, we jettison the reality of our ominous diagnosis in the “Thou shall/shall nots” of the law, and with it the sweet cure in the, “This is My body/blood” of the Gospel.
  9. We treat the Scriptures as if they’re our literary property to toy with as we please.
  10. Either one of those verses alone is scary; but both of them together are terrifying!
  11. At our churches must remain focused on the deep kick, the real deal, the thing itself. I’m not the first on this site to remind us that this is Christ himself.
  12. To the Pastors and Preachers whose only word for me and others seem to be, "make sure you’re right with God!"
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