Hate and Death Flipped Upside Down
Vilification of the other is married to the justification of the self.
God's Not Impressed By Your Word Count
Because of Jesus, God always hears our prayers, and he always responds to them in love–regardless of the quality or quantity of the one speaking them.
He Devises Means
Our God is the one who brings back the exile, who restores the outcast, he is the one who devises means to do so.
How can I be assured of my salvation now if only ‘he who endures to the end shall be saved’?
EPISODE #107: Ted asks about assurance in light of Matthew 24:13, when we don’t feel like we’re enduring. Rod talks about the struggle being typical for sinners who are sensitive to their inner disobedience and their disinclination to Christ, but then speaks of good news for such people, including confirmation of what believers faithfully do in their vocations every day.
What is the Lutheran position on discipleship?
EPISODE #99: Ted asks about what discipleship looks like in Lutheranism. Rod talks about law and the Gospel, the message we can sometimes receive from church about discipleship, and investigates it through the Lutheran doctrine of vocation and Christian liberty.