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11 mins read|01/30/20In our search for absolution, human beings leave no stone unturned. We’re desperate to have our uneasy consciences soothed.
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12 mins read|01/06/20Our words of proclamation from the pulpit not only bring repentance and comfort, enacting in our hearers an exchange of sinful identity for the identity of God’s child, but also the motivation and fuel for loving others.
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8 mins read|01/03/20It is the words the pastor speaks that send the dead out alive.
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1 min|12/26/19A Pharisee invites Jesus over for dinner and a prostitute shows up. How far does the forgiveness of Jesus go?
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11 mins read|11/20/19If someone confesses their sins into my ears, I have no options but to forgive them in the name of Christ.
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15 mins read|10/18/19The following is an excerpt from“Credo: I Believe,” edited by Caleb Keith and Kelsi Klembara (1517 Publishing, 2019).
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17 mins read|03/13/19Cognitive Behavioral Therapy works for me, not because it substitutes a temporal and flimsy antidote to my problems but because it points me to the God who has adopted and baptized me
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8 mins read|02/01/19God has gifted pastors with a terrible privilege. We’re invited to go inside peoples’ pain. A stranger stands emotionally naked in front of us begging, “I can’t get what he did out of my head. Please, help me!”
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12 mins read|01/28/19Just as we believe ourselves to be forgiven because God sees us in Christ, so to forgive others is to see them as God sees them in Christ. To forgive, in other words, is to put God’s eyes in our eyes and our eyes in God’s eyes.
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1 min|11/06/18Scott and Caleb are joined by Drs. Jim Nestingen and Steve Paulson to discuss confession and absolution.
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10 mins read|10/29/18I’ve had a lot of nasty things done to me in my 43 years of life. Many of which were done by church people while we were worshipping and serving Jesus together.
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8 mins read|09/27/18I am not a good Lutheran. I have only been around reformation theology for a few years.
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