You May Be Right… In this episode of Banned Books, we read Anselm of Canterbury’s Meditation on Sin and Penance. We discuss the consequences of sin, the Fountain of Mercy, Jesus’ excuses, the doctrine of simul iustus et peccator, theological presuppositions, and how we speak influences our behavior.

It's a new year, and you are still the same you: a sinner who is simultaneously perfect in every way because Christ declares it to be so.

Show me a sinner, and I’ll write you a story of a God who saves them.

Forgiveness is ours, Luther continually proclaimed, because Christ has put His claim on our sins and taken them as His own to the Cross and into His tomb.

Jacob is given the gospel afresh right when he needed it and it is because of this gospel that his faith is stirred up anew.

The good news for Jacob is that God humbled himself so that he could lose a wrestling match to a man with a dislocated hip so that he could give him a new name.

Now that the Lord of Sabaoth has involved himself, something ends, something is born.

God encourages us to take off the old sinful self.

The experience of being a sinner and a saint.

The goodness of God's grace is also offensive to our egos

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