Sanctification

Justification and regeneration are, therefore, necessarily connected and have profound implications upon the craft of preaching.

Faith should later again flow forth from our heart’s depths to our neighbor freely and unhindered in good works; not that we wish to rest our salvation in them; for God will not have that, but wishes the conscience to rest in himself alone.

The emphasis for All Saints Sunday is not on the saints, but the Sanctifier, Jesus Christ.

There are plenty of reasons why you do not already do whatever you want out of fear of the law, and you will find these reasons persist and remain long after the gospel has its way with you.

What God created, God will grow. We don’t add a few stitches onto his creation.