Reformation Figures (340)
  1. When we hear freedom, we have to ask about its opposite, bondage.
  2. The devil knows our name and labels us by our sin. The devil breathes out death as he names us for what we are, sinners.
  3. You Want The Truth? You Can’t Handle The Truth! Gillespie and Riley begin their series on "The Bondage of The Will," one of only two books Martin Luther wrote that he claimed were worth preserving. In this episode, we begin at the end.
  4. Are people so different today? Is justification really irrelevant now? Is the preacher’s only point of contact with the life-giving Gospel a by-product of Microsoft’s word processor? I do not think so.
  5. The kingdom of Christ is realized where nothing but comfort and the forgiveness of sins reign not only in words to proclaim it, which is also necessary; but also in deed.
  6. A truly Christian work is it that we descend and get mixed up in the mire of the sinner as deeply as he sticks there himself.
  7. [Luther's] Catechism is at home in the evangelical pulpit, guiding and shaping what the preacher says so faith might be created and love given direction.
  8. Martin Luther is not–or, at least should not–be the object of our affection.
  9. The central affirmation of the Reformation stands: Through no merit of ours, but by His mercy, we have been restored to a right relationship with God through the life, death, and resurrection of His beloved Son
  10. What follows is a little crash course in how to read Calvin with respect, for our benefit, and with an eye to how we keep Reformation giants at a proper historical arms distance.
  11. These three: to judge, to avenge, and to glory, have been taken from us, and no person should share in them.
  12. Naturally each individual forgets the beam in his own eye and perceives only the mote in his neighbor’s. One will not bear with the faults of the other; each requires perfection of his fellow.
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