The Days Are Coming
“The days are coming,” and God said it. God, who kept his promise that Christ would come at Christmas.
Geting Out of the Way of God's Promises
One could reason that God might, at least, give the church a little worldly power.
How does the forgiveness of sins figure into the Parable of the Talents?
EPISODE #86: Ted asks about where we sinners can look to find forgiveness in light of Jesus’ parable of the talents. Rod talks about reading all of the Bible through ‘the analogy of faith’, which is that the overall message of the Bible is ‘a messiah was promised to sinners’, which is Christ, and Luther said it’s all about Him…
Why do Lutherans say that baptism actually saves you?
EPISODE #85: Ted asks about how Lutherans can say such a thing as ‘baptism saves sinners’. Rod talks about when he would teach his students to go and read all the passages in Scripture that talk about baptism and report back what they found. He points students to Scripture since it is very clear about what baptism is and what…
Remember Who You Are
God and Jeremiah may have been looking at the same person, but they were seeing very different things.