TOPIC INDEXVocation (7)

  1. What is God's Will for the Election?

    book
    11/04/20
    10 mins
    By Rick Ritchie
    Whoever your president is, you have a King. A King who elected you.

  2. If God is Better than My Father, He's Really Good

    book
    03/15/16
    8 mins
    By Rick Ritchie
    God the Father Almighty is good. And He must be good in ways that surpass my earthly father.

  3. Life Together Under the Cross (Part 5)

    book
    08/20/14
    14 mins
    By Rick Ritchie
    Mutual Conversation and Consolation of the Brethren V — Some Examples from Rod Rosenbladt

  4. Life Together Under the Cross (Part 4)

    book
    07/22/14
    17 mins
    By Rick Ritchie
    "For where two or three have gathered together in My name, I am there in their midst." This should therefore be our starting place for understanding the basis of the doctrine.

  5. Life Together Under the Cross (Part 3)

    book
    07/03/14
    9 mins
    By Rick Ritchie
    We have to trust that there is value in these conversations. They are not valuable only when they can be counted as a program. And what are most programs but attempts to get us to “act like” Christians at some future point of time?

  6. Life Together Under the Cross (Part 2)

    book
    03/10/14
    7 mins
    By Rick Ritchie
    As with many teachings, the Lutheran teaching on Mutual Conversation and Consolation of the Brethren fits in with other teachings. The various teachings don’t stand alone, but they fit together as an organic whole.

  7. Life Together Under the Cross (Part 1)

    book
    02/26/14
    7 mins
    By Rick Ritchie
    One of the strongest elements in the evangelicalism of my youth has a place in Lutheranism that might be surprising to many. This is what our confessions call “The Mutual Conversation and Consolation of the Brethren."