News of Kilmer's death hit me like a freight train because his Doc Holliday stirred something in me about friendship—both the earthly kind and the divine.
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04/03/25
The Psalm now is this: as Christ suffered and then was exalted, so we are also in him.
04/02/25
No matter how stringent one's "regulations" — "Do not handle, Do not taste, Do not touch" (Col. 2:21) — the sinful nature that resides in everyone's heart is untamable by self-effort alone.
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John W. Hoyum
11/08/23
Curious about what Lutherans mean by “Two Kingdom”? In this short piece John Hoyum sums up the doctrine and some of its potential consequences.
05/01/23
What might Christians of the Reformation tradition think of claims like these about the nature of salvation?
04/06/23
By mandating the promise, Christ states something stronger than just an invitation.
02/03/23
Predestination, Jim knew, is no longer a frightening doctrine of mystery when you understand that God makes his choice about you in the simple word of God, given from one sinner to another.
12/28/22
That great truth of creedal Christianity – that God is man in Christ – is not set forth for our speculative enjoyment.
12/14/22
Hains offers a novel yet simple contention: Luther is most catholic where he is boldest.
12/02/22
When the church is a political actor, the gospel doesn’t have the final word.
09/09/22
When God makes promises, he is incapable of not keeping them.
04/29/22
What the gospel promises is not escape from our humanity, but resurrection from the dead.
04/04/22
False holiness is always a possession and achievement of the individual in isolation from the good of others. And so it isn’t holiness at all.
02/04/22
An immense amount of ink has been spilled contesting and interpreting Bonhoeffer's significance as a figure of Christian history and a theologian of the church.
08/09/21
Baptism is always valid because no unrighteousness or faithlessness on our part could ify God’s faithfulness.
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