TOPIC INDEXReformation Doctrine (10)
  1. Forde’s work testifies to the liveliness and vitality of confessional Lutheranism, and its promise for the continuing need to preach Christ crucified in this, and every, age until the Lord’s return.
  2. Repentance means being cut down by the law’s declaration of judgment. It’s not an activity we do to prepare for grace, but a point of despair worked by God himself.
  3. Has the modern world taken too strong a dose of the gospel as its inheritance from the Reformation?
  4. The gospel does not proclaim the results of our practical reasoning about things we experience, but the horror of God crucified for our sins and at our hands.
  5. Christians are free to engage in political matters, even as Christians, but the church as an institution has a responsibility not to lobby for specific political ends, however worthy and just they might be.
  6. We might not appreciate that God chooses to save us by his word alone, but our discomfort doesn’t make the promise any less effective.
  7. Preaching is simply the verbal bestowal of what Scripture has already given us in written form
  8. Only the ministry of the Gospel can forgive sins, even while civil government rightly carries out retribution for lawlessness and disobedience.
  9. I’d like to offer a short reflection on the theme of “worldliness” as it appears in his later work and how that’s connected to an item of his Lutheran heritage: the theology of the cross.
  10. What we notice less often is that this same fear wonders about both the efficacy of the Gospel and the Law.