TOPIC INDEXReformation Doctrine (11)

  1. Crisis

    book
    02/12/22
    12 mins
    By Robert Kolb
    It is precisely from the cross that the glory of God shines most brightly into our lives, as dark and sinister as Golgotha appears from a sinful distance. Cross trumps crisis.

  2. The Freedom to Say What I Mean

    book
    02/05/22
    14 mins
    By Robert Kolb
    Because Jesus has set us free, we enjoy a freedom of movement in His world, under His grace, that loosens our tongues to sing His praise.

  3. Justification as Forgiveness

    book
    10/16/21
    18 mins
    By Robert Kolb
    Forgiveness is ours, Luther continually proclaimed, because Christ has put His claim on our sins and taken them as His own to the Cross and into His tomb.

  4. Holy Week Special: Christ’s Cross—the Orientation of our Life of Repentance

    book
    03/28/21
    14 mins
    By Robert Kolb
    Each day gives us occasion to die to our sinful identities of all kinds and to live out a life in Christ’s footsteps as children of God.

  5. Holy Week Special: Christ’s Cross—the Orientation of our Community

    book
    03/28/21
    15 mins
    By Robert Kolb
    Golgotha is the point where not only Mary and John’s family life assumed a new character, but it is the point of orientation for all human community that uses the cross to straighten out the lives of individuals turned in upon themselves.

  6. Holy Week Special: Christ’s Cross—the Orientation of our Identity

    book
    03/28/21
    14 mins
    By Robert Kolb
    The cross does not remain on a hill far away. It pursues us into the valleys, the ravines, the crevices in which we get trapped as we wander in search of a fixed point for our lives.

  7. The Gift of Seeing Ourselves as Others See Us

    book
    01/31/21
    13 mins
    By Robert Kolb
    Trusting in Christ’s promise of new life and deliverance pours the ability to abandon fixing our eyes only inwardly and lets us see ourselves as others see us.

  8. He Doesn’t Make Things Like We’re Used To

    book
    01/10/21
    14 mins
    By Robert Kolb
    God makes all things new. He refashions us from those turned in upon ourselves, turned to idols of our own choice and making, to experience the freedom He gives by pronouncing us His righteous children.

  9. Be Careful with Imperatives

    book
    10/11/20
    16 mins
    By Robert Kolb
    Imperatives are good for many things. Luther said the Law is good, but precisely because it is good, it has become poison and death to the bad. The Law does not give life but evaluates it, and we encounter day in and day out its negative evaluation of us.

  10. I’m Mortified and, If Not, I Must Get to It

    book
    01/27/20
    16 mins
    By Robert Kolb
    God has placed preachers of His Word in the frontlines of His combat against Satan and all his minions that is fought out on the battlefields of the individual lives of believers.

  11. Drs. Kolb and Siemon-Netto talk Two Kingdoms

    book
    09/16/16
    1 min
    By Adam Francisco Scott Keith Caleb Keith Rod Rosenbladt Uwe Siemon-Netto Robert Kolb
    Hallo! This week the Thinking Fellows are in Germany as special guests to the Confessio Augustana conference. Capitalizing on this experience, Dr. Keith, and producer Caleb sit down with Drs. Bob Kolb and Uwe Siemon-Netto. Our guests along with Dr. Keith discuss Two Kingdom theory clarifying our earlier episode on the topic. Sit back, relax, grab a drink, and enjoy the show!