1. Scripture is clear in its main teachings and doctrines. People don’t need any special knowledge or training to understand sin, grace, forgiveness, and salvation.
  2. Preaching is simply the verbal bestowal of what Scripture has already given us in written form
  3. The real problem with the way we talk about Baptism in particular, and the sacraments at all, is that we are simply afraid of letting God’s Word get us.
  4. We can’t all afford to travel the world, but the more we read from outside our own context, the bigger we see the world.
  5. When orthodoxy becomes a Law, heterodoxy can feel like the Gospel.
  6. The history of the early Reformation in the New World is both a tale of pirates and the battle of catechisms.
  7. God acts through His Word and means in order to create, restore, and renew inward faith.
  8. While 500 years is certainly something to be celebrated, to always focus on the anniversary number could run the risk of forgetting the true meaning behind the reason we remember the Reformation as an important period in the history of the Christian church.
  9. Christ is the answer to both the Who and the how of our extra nos salvation.
  10. It is time to shake things up and take a break from the Great Thinkers of the Christian Faith and begin a new series on the Great Ideas of the Reformation.
  11. Can one still find a church that teaches that Christianity, and the Christian life, can be summed up as: "We are saved by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone?"
  12. What follows is a brief examination of each of these five theological slogans.
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