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1 min|05/15/23On this episode of Preaching the Text, John Hoyum and Steve Paulson discuss church unity.
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16 mins read|08/09/21Baptism is always valid because no unrighteousness or faithlessness on our part could ify God’s faithfulness.
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11 mins read|01/19/21Has the modern world taken too strong a dose of the gospel as its inheritance from the Reformation?
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12 mins read|10/02/20Luther's signature insight on the sacraments was that God’s word of promise doesn’t just symbolize an absent reality but that it gives and bestows God’s real favor.
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9 mins read|09/07/20Predestination is a promising teaching as Paul teaches it in Romans 8. It’s promising when Christ and his work for us are held firmly in hand.
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13 mins read|01/13/20Christians are free to engage in political matters, even as Christians, but the church as an institution has a responsibility not to lobby for specific political ends, however worthy and just they might be.
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12 mins read|10/14/19Terror and even hatred of God are the only things with which divine hiddenness can leave us.
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13 mins read|10/07/19Christ’s indwelling in the Christian must be tied relentlessly to these external and objective events of God’s own action.
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11 mins read|08/08/19Preaching is simply the verbal bestowal of what Scripture has already given us in written form
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16 mins read|07/15/19Divine election is nothing other than God’s freedom and power to choose, and He has made His word the instrument by which He makes His choice about you.
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12 mins read|04/11/19Being a member of a church connects people to the whole reason the church has for existing: that we might obtain justifying faith in Jesus Christ through Word and Sacrament.
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11 mins read|12/11/18The death and resurrection of our Lord has indeed removed the power of all these things. But they remain for now, even so.
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