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12 mins read|05/01/23What might Christians of the Reformation tradition think of claims like these about the nature of salvation?
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13 mins read|04/29/22What the gospel promises is not escape from our humanity, but resurrection from the dead.
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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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13 mins read|07/09/21What Luther is doing in his Catechism is teaching how the gospel is an action of the whole Trinity, not just one of the persons.
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8 mins read|03/12/21Repentance means being cut down by the law’s declaration of judgment. It’s not an activity we do to prepare for grace, but a point of despair worked by God himself.
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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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9 mins read|04/23/20This gospel is not like all other human acts of gift-giving. It doesn’t come with the expectation of a gift in return. His mercy is an unreturned gift.
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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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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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9 mins read|10/08/18What we notice less often is that this same fear wonders about both the efficacy of the Gospel and the Law.
