TOPIC INDEXReformation Doctrine (9)
  1. 1517 Resources to help Celebrate Reformation Day
  2. In this episode, the Thinking Fellows discuss the centrality and importance of Christians' doctrinal content and confessions.
  3. God is not what we experience him to be, what our emotions narrate him to be, or what our intuition thinks he might be. God is what and who he says he is.
  4. Because peace is a gift and not a product, you can’t work your way into it. However—you can receive it by grace.
  5. The view of Total Depravity as it is usually understood by outsiders (and even many insiders), is often misunderstood. Despite appearances to the contrary, Total Depravity does not mean totally evil.
  6. The Church gathers around the Word and Sacrament in order to receive Christ and each other.
  7. Only because He is an outsider can he afford the costly fee insiders could never afford no matter how hard they work.
  8. We all look forward to Lent’s conclusion and the celebration of Resurrection Sunday. This is the Sunday of victory and joy as the Church enters into the reality that Christ has defeated death and hell, declared victory over such enemies and set history on its final course of consummation.
  9. Last year, a friend I follow tweeted, “Calling yourself a sinner is spitting on all the work that Jesus did to make you a saint.”