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8 mins read|05/01/18Jesus is the end of religion.
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10 mins read|03/06/18Only Jesus’ absolute absolution can satisfy a troubled conscience.
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9 mins read|02/27/18“Church is set free in Christ, in short, to revel in her irrelevance to the ways of the world’s power and wisdom.
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16 mins read|02/20/18That is why the church has to offer Super Bread and Super Wine, so that God can see that we are Super Christians.
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9 mins read|02/06/18No matter how great our efforts or how righteous our intent, we will go from troubled to scared, and scared to terrified, unless we are sprinkled with the blood of the Lamb.
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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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12 mins read|01/04/18While I was still an over-eager seminarian the professor warned me, “Mr. Riley, this is exciting stuff.
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9 mins read|12/12/17Blessedness comes to us camouflaged as simple earthly words, water, bread and wine.
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6 mins read|12/06/17I’m going to begin at the beginning. But which one? Birth? Kindergarten? My first drink? The first time I had sex?
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8 mins read|10/03/17But where love is necessary we pray for our enemies and bless them in the hope that God will repent and convert them to the Gospel.
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5 mins read|08/31/17God's doing for us that gets done is Word and Sacrament stuff. Everything else flows from His speaking to us, baptizing us, bodying and bloodying us. Jesus sees our need.
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11 mins read|08/23/17When the Holy Spirit is at work in the office of the holy ministry, the man is ridden by the Spirit and so his only concern is for preaching the Gospel, baptizing, absolving, and feeding sinners in the Name of Christ Jesus.
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