Reformation History (428)
  1. In honor of the anniversary of Philip Melanchthon’s Birthday, the following is an excerpt from Meeting Melanchthon written by Scott Keith (1517 Publishing, 2017).
  2. The history of the early Reformation in the New World is both a tale of pirates and the battle of catechisms.
  3. In 1521, the Pope issued an official decree known as bull against Luther. The Bull declared Luther’s writings as heresy and demanded he recant.
  4. The Thinking Fellows continue outlining the events of the Reformation by following Luther’s move from the monastery to the university.
  5. Such faith is faith alone. Even our Spirit-produced fruit is not to be trusted. Rather, faith rests entirely in Christ’s work for us.
  6. The Fellows begin a new series outlining the history of the Reformation. The first episode features a thorough description of the Middle Ages followed by the initial struggles of Luther.
  7. Advent is one big answer to the question of free will in matters of salvation. God is free. Our will is bound.
  8. The Pope Leo X used the psalm description of a boar uprooting grape vines in a vineyard as a metaphor for what the upstart German monk had been doing at that backwater university.
  9. Luther’s theology lets the believer in Christ dwell under the cerulean sky of God’s unchanging grace.
  10. When we say in the benediction, “The LORD make His face shine on you,” grace is what we mean.
  11. God acts through His Word and means in order to create, restore, and renew inward faith.
  12. Divine election hacking happens with the proposal that God’s Word is irrelevant and powerless, weak and impotent.
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