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3 mins read|12/25/18Christmas: the Perfect Time of Year for a Theologian of the Cross! In this episode, Gillespie and Riley read from a Christmas sermon by their favorite heretic, Martin Luther. They discuss Mary's example of how God makes theologians of the cross through suffering, oppression, weakness, and hopelessness.
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12 mins read|11/02/18Jesus is the Word of God. God’s Word—on two legs (John 1:14). I’d read it in the first chapter of John’s Gospel many, many times.
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8 mins read|08/07/18God preaches a concrete word to us in the present tense. We hear the Good News that Jesus is God’s mercy for us.
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12 mins read|04/25/18In Martin Luther's Small Catechism he borrows a line from St. Augustine about what defines a "god."
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16 mins read|04/16/18I’ve always been more at home in the Old Testament than in the New Testament.
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10 mins read|03/06/18Only Jesus’ absolute absolution can satisfy a troubled conscience.
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11 mins read|01/16/18The pastor declares it. We receive it. The forgiveness of sins. It’s a simple thing.
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9 mins read|12/19/17Faith does not distinguish between worthy and unworthy, saint and sinner, great faith and anemic faith, it only focuses on Christ Jesus.
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8 mins read|04/04/17Apart from bare, naked faith in Jesus' atoning work for us, no sinner is, or ever can be, holy.
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9 mins read|01/24/17When it comes to faith, God runs all the verbs. God's Spirit calls us by the Gospel. He enlightens us with His gifts.
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8 mins read|01/17/17Salvation starts in being a sinner and knowing it because that's where God starts salvation, in making "Him to be Sin who knew no sin."
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9 mins read|11/08/16It's easy to forget that today, just like then, most people who laud Luther publicly as a reformer, revolutionary, and so on, secretly reject his teaching because it's too much to take.
