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5 mins read|10/24/24This episode of the Outlaw God podcast was recorded live at Here We Still Stand 2024.
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16 mins read|04/15/21Forde’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.
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8 mins read|03/12/21Repentance 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.
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11 mins read|01/19/21Has the modern world taken too strong a dose of the gospel as its inheritance from the Reformation?
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12 mins read|06/12/20The 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.
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13 mins read|01/13/20Christians 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.
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16 mins read|11/25/19We might not appreciate that God chooses to save us by his word alone, but our discomfort doesn’t make the promise any less effective.
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11 mins read|08/08/19Preaching is simply the verbal bestowal of what Scripture has already given us in written form
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16 mins read|07/04/19Only the ministry of the Gospel can forgive sins, even while civil government rightly carries out retribution for lawlessness and disobedience.
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13 mins read|06/21/19I’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.
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9 mins read|10/08/18What we notice less often is that this same fear wonders about both the efficacy of the Gospel and the Law.
