This is the third installment in the 1517 articles series, “What Makes a Saint?”
The Church speaks not with the cleverness of men, but with the breath of God.
I always imagined dying a faithful death for Christ would mean burning at the stake. Now, I suspect it will mean dying in my bed of natural causes.

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This is the fourth installment in our special series on Luther’s Heidelberg Disputation. Translation of Theses 5 and 6 by Caleb Keith.
“The lack of assurance of one’s standing before God causes a person to do anything to make things right in a vain attempt to gain eternal certitude. ”
There in that moment, the waters of baptism reached down deep into the forsaken path of the grave with a man whose body and mind could no longer hold onto any reality otherwise.
If there is no resurrection, then we have no true hope, and the arts above all vocations would be the folly of follies.
The Law must attack because nothing outside of Christ can enter Heaven—nothing!
Neither did Christ’s absolution “run out” nor “reach a limit” due to Judas’ sin.
To lose a leader like this is always too soon!
The folly of sinful man attempting to bridge such an infinite gap to God Who is holy becomes obvious.
God’s justification of us does not happen secretly in our spirits. God justifies you and me in His absolving Word
One of the biggest challenges to the Christian faith is sorting through our question of “Where is God in the trials of our lives?”
The devil is effective with this attack because it calls out all the things a Christian sinner experiences as simultaneous sinner and saint.
In our time Christ has not left us bereft of unbroken signs of His promised return.