Two Kingdoms (42)
  1. Caesar gets your taxes. Christ gets your heart.
  2. Every age has its emergencies, and the church must never ignore them. Yet, our response cannot be one of panic or propaganda.
  3. Every earthly kingdom meets its end. All empires crumble and fall. But from the beginning, the kingdom of God, which Christ would rule, was said to be eternal.
  4. Jesus satisfies, fills, and saves because he is the Son of God, who, with the Father and the Holy Spirit, lives and reigns forever.
  5. Christ is always the ultimate for God's children, but we sometimes struggle with things that come before.
  6. You have real freedom through the gospel of Jesus Christ, a freedom that doesn’t rest on founders, votes, or power plays.
  7. One Christ rules over all of it. He is the constant, the root that nourishes every estate and every vocation.
  8. What the gospel does is take people who were enemies of God and transform them into lovers of God
  9. The Christian must always remember that personal piety and liturgical uniformity are by no means the marks of true religion.
  10. Curious about what Lutherans mean by “Two Kingdom”? In this short piece John Hoyum sums up the doctrine and some of its potential consequences.
  11. This is an excerpt from “The Alien and the Proper: Luther's Two-Fold Righteousness in Controversy, Ministry, and Citizenship,” edited by Robert Kolb (1517 Publishing, 2023).
  12. When the church is a political actor, the gospel doesn’t have the final word.
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