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11 mins read|09/13/19The following is an excerpt adapted from “Let the Bird Fly” written by Wade Johnston (1517 Publishing, 2019).
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14 mins read|08/14/19A person, not a nation, can be a Christian because only a person can be saved by grace through faith in the work of Christ.
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9 mins read|07/25/19Where American freedom shouts for individual rights and liberties, freedom in Christ binds neighbors together because our blessings are for each other.
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16 mins read|07/04/19Only the ministry of the Gospel can forgive sins, even while civil government rightly carries out retribution for lawlessness and disobedience.
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10 mins read|05/04/19We do not, as followers of Jesus, put any hope or place any trust in “princes, in mortal man, in whom there is no salvation” (Ps. 146:3).
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9 mins read|01/31/19From political parties to sports teams, we know all too well how quickly we can ruin a good thing, turning a temporal allegiance into a spiritual one
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2 mins read|01/29/19As the Biblical text transforms Luther’s positions on grace and justification, he shifts his writing from disputations to letters targeted at the common man, secular rulers, and the Roman church.
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5 mins read|01/15/19On episode EIGHTY-SIX of Let the Bird Fly! the guys welcome back Rev. Dr. Mark Braun from Wisconsin Lutheran College.
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13 mins read|12/24/18The celebration of He who came in humility, who would upend the Kingdoms of this world, was eclipsed by men grasping at the power of each other’s supposed kingdoms.
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10 mins read|10/02/18We are caught up in a battle between two kings and two kingdoms. And, whether we like it or not, we are ruled by one king or the other.
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13 mins read|06/29/18The reason the U.S. is blessed by God is that we are essentially a “good” nation. And this is the root of Bob’s problem (and that of all civil religion).
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11 mins read|04/12/18What did Christians do, both when they encountered a Rome in its glory, as when Christ was born, and in it decline, as when Constantine tried to pull stuff back together?
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