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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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11 mins read|08/19/18Don’t say you’re beyond hope, for there is not one beyond God. Don’t say you’ve done too much evil, for there is no wrong bigger than God’s heart of forgiveness.
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7 mins read|07/30/18This is my fifteenth year on staff at Bible camp. The path to the snack shop is well worn, and I’m an expert at carpet ball.
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8 mins read|07/09/18Why confess sin? Is it so we can get rewarded by God? A little extra grace or material good for our troubles, maybe.
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10 mins read|05/25/18That’s where a true encounter with God leaves you. Unable to point the finger at anyone else, all you can do is fall on your face, confess your sin, be absolved, and join the angels in singing, “Holy, holy, holy.”
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10 mins read|03/06/18Only Jesus’ absolute absolution can satisfy a troubled conscience.
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9 mins read|02/06/18No matter how great our efforts or how righteous our intent, we will go from troubled to scared, and scared to terrified, unless we are sprinkled with the blood of the Lamb.
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13 mins read|02/05/18The practice of Confession in the Christian church is given to us so that I can offload my sins to He Who takes my sins to death for me—none other than Christ Jesus.
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