Martin Luther (407)
  1. Trust may risk, but trust produces a sense of assurance letting us rest easy and enjoy peace while it drives us to ventures which may seem dangerous but are possible to do because trust defies the dangers.
  2. The church’s reformation is not about fragmentation, but a way forward to unity around that which is central to the church, around Christ and him crucified.
  3. Luther understood when the Word of God came it did not offer sinners a choice.
  4. Even if not a turning point, 1518 is a point of no return for Luther.
  5. The way to salvation does not consist in works invented by men, but that which leads to God is believing and trusting in Him.
  6. For Luther, Erasmus’ Christ-less, Spirit-less theological conclusions demonstrated that behind his supposed humanistic optimism lay a profound despair and pessimism.
  7. John Hoyum joins Caleb Keith to answer some listener questions.
  8. What is it to perform the Word? Is it to speak about it, to retell it, to illustrate it, to enlighten it? What?
  9. For Erasmus, it would be better for people in general to bear the disease of moralism and choice than to be cured of it by the preaching and teaching of God’s unconditional election of sinners in Christ.
  10. The upright, in whom the law has exercised its work, when they feel their sickness and weakness, say: God will help me; I trust in him; I build upon him; he is my rock and hope.
  11. The night has passed and the day broken. In response to the morning dawn, birds sing, beasts arouse themselves and all humanity arises.
  12. When explaining that sinners were saved by grace alone Erasmus would not go so far as to say that the reception of God’s grace erased human responsibility.
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