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12 mins read|08/24/18Prechers translate as a calling. Called by God, they are given a message, and for most of their hearers it is to one degree or another a message in a language from afar, with strange concepts, sometimes with a more familiar ring, sometimes with a strange sound.
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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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10 mins read|06/19/18Hus held that Christ alone grants salvation and that popes do not.
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15 mins read|05/14/18The miracle of Pentecost is not obvious; it is the miracle of faith created through the preaching of the word of the cross.
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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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2 mins read|01/02/18You say: Since forgiveness depends on faith alone, why must one nonetheless do good works? Answer: If faith is of the true sort, it cannot be without good works, just as no good work can be where unbelief dwells.
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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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10 mins read|11/23/17Above all, Luther understood the importance of the Biblical narrative as the story of God’s love and man’s salvation revealed in Christ Crucified.
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8 mins read|11/01/17We just finished celebrating the 500th Anniversary of the Protestant Reformation.
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