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Ken Sundet Jones
Ken Sundet Jones

  1. Thomas Aquinas: The Doctor of the Church

    book
    01/28/22
    11 mins
    Ken Sundet Jones
    Aquinas would craft a systematic theology that did with the matter of faith what Aristotle had done with the natural world.

  2. The Shepherds' Witness

    book
    12/28/21
    13 mins
    Ken Sundet Jones
    The shepherds are the most unlikely people to play the role the angels cast them in.

  3. The Antidote to "Sadvent"

    book
    11/30/21
    9 mins
    Ken Sundet Jones
    If Jesus is indeed the same yesterday, today, and forever, everything his enfleshment brings is already assured: life, salvation, and forgiveness.

  4. The Beatitudes are Ridiculous

    book
    11/15/21
    17 mins
    Ken Sundet Jones
    Look the judge in the eye and pin your sin on Jesus, the divine judge’s son. Jesus knows you can’t do it, so he trades places with you and pits himself against God’s righteous demands.

  5. The Death of Frederick the Wise

    book
    05/05/21
    13 mins
    Ken Sundet Jones
    While Elector Frederick and Martin Luther never had a face-to-face meeting, the prince can be credited with the early success of the Reformation.

  6. Luther, Jesus’ Body, and a Troubled Conscience

    book
    05/03/21
    14 mins
    Ken Sundet Jones
    Luther saw that God demands not that we become perfectly righteous like God but that we simply receive the gift of righteousness; a gift that actually makes us worthy.

  7. Relax, It's Me: How Jesus Saves Us From Doubt and Despair

    book
    04/22/21
    19 mins
    Ken Sundet Jones
    For those of us who recognize the disciples’ despair in ourselves, Jesus comes with the same word: “Relax, it’s me. Peace be with you.”

  8. Another 500th Anniversary: Luther at the Diet of Worms

    book
    04/17/21
    16 mins
    Ken Sundet Jones
    The result of this day’s proceedings, in Luther’s mind, was likely to be a painful death at the stake.

  9. Christ's Words of Comfort: Luke 12:32

    book
    04/07/21
    9 mins
    Ken Sundet Jones
    You have this Shepherd who knows your voice, your cry, your incessant baaing.

  10. Repentance According to the Scriptures: Mark 1:1-8

    book
    02/26/21
    10 mins
    Ken Sundet Jones
    Repentance comes on account of suffering, loss, failure, and death. It happens when the promise of forgiveness of sin given in Jesus’ death is proclaimed to us down-and-outers.

  11. A Q&A with Ken Sundet Jones on "A Lutheran Toolkit"

    book
    02/09/21
    13 mins
    Ken Sundet Jones
    "A Lutheran Toolkit" is available for purchase today from 1517 Publishing

  12. Starting with Christ, the God Who Shows Up

    book
    02/06/21
    10 mins
    Ken Sundet Jones
    This is an excerpt from “A Lutheran Toolkit” written by Ken Sundet Jones (1517 Publishing, 2021), pgs. 23-25.
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