Reformation Figures (82)
  1. With this collar on, my superpower is just unbridled preaching! Pastors Gillespie and Riley read a letter from John Huss to John Barbatus about the biblical teaching on who can (and cannot) preach.
  2. In Martin Luther's Small Catechism he borrows a line from St. Augustine about what defines a "god."
  3. I’ve always been more at home in the Old Testament than in the New Testament.
  4. Only Jesus’ absolute absolution can satisfy a troubled conscience.
  5. The pastor declares it. We receive it. The forgiveness of sins. It’s a simple thing.
  6. Faith does not distinguish between worthy and unworthy, saint and sinner, great faith and anemic faith, it only focuses on Christ Jesus.
  7. Apart from bare, naked faith in Jesus' atoning work for us, no sinner is, or ever can be, holy.
  8. When it comes to faith, God runs all the verbs. God's Spirit calls us by the Gospel. He enlightens us with His gifts.
  9. Salvation starts in being a sinner and knowing it because that's where God starts salvation, in making "Him to be Sin who knew no sin."
  10. It's easy to forget that today, just like then, most people who laud Luther publicly as a reformer, revolutionary, and so on, secretly reject his teaching because it's too much to take.