Confession and Absolution (127)
  1. Is repentance really just an afterthought or a one-time event? Or is it the way of the Christian life in which God turns us away from ourselves and towards His Son.
  2. It isn’t that God struggles to believe our repeated cries of “wolf.” Rather, we struggle to believe God when he repeatedly comes to us with forgiveness and mercy on his lips.
  3. The Augsburg Confession is clear; the aim or purpose of repentance is the application of Christ to the sinner.
  4. This is an edited excerpt from “The Pastoral Prophet: Meditations on the Book of Jeremiah” written by Steve Kruschel (1517 Publishing, 2019).
  5. We all know what I think (maybe) Rachel knows: Celebrating ourselves isn’t enough. It won’t ever be enough.
  6. Absolution is the word God speaks to cause his sin-dead creation to live.
  7. God has a strange delivery system, the foolish preaching of the cross and foolish preachers for Christ’s sake delivering it.
  8. Jesus lives to intercede. So we needn’t bring him our feigned righteousness or our faux rehabilitation.
  9. Apathy, melancholy, and disillusionment plague the footsteps of the up-and-coming generations more than ever, especially in the realm of religion, and it’s worth asking, “Why?”
  10. Repent and believe the Good News! Everything is OK.
  11. The Thinking Fellows talk about Luther’s breakdown and examples of confession in the Small Catechism.
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