Two Kingdoms (38)
  1. Christ is always the ultimate for God's children, but we sometimes struggle with things that come before.
  2. You have real freedom through the gospel of Jesus Christ, a freedom that doesn’t rest on founders, votes, or power plays.
  3. One Christ rules over all of it. He is the constant, the root that nourishes every estate and every vocation.
  4. What the gospel does is take people who were enemies of God and transform them into lovers of God
  5. The Christian must always remember that personal piety and liturgical uniformity are by no means the marks of true religion.
  6. Curious about what Lutherans mean by “Two Kingdom”? In this short piece John Hoyum sums up the doctrine and some of its potential consequences.
  7. This is an excerpt from “The Alien and the Proper: Luther's Two-Fold Righteousness in Controversy, Ministry, and Citizenship,” edited by Robert Kolb (1517 Publishing, 2023).
  8. When the church is a political actor, the gospel doesn’t have the final word.
  9. The good news is that with our God there is always more: more than we deserve, dare, ask, or expect, more than we can see, hear, feel, or think.
  10. St. Paul extends to us the call to arms. In particular, there is one weapon which is effective against so elusive an enemy. The weapon is prayer.
  11. Finding the balance between indifferentism and obsessiveness has never been easy, and it’s especially difficult in our environment.
  12. History is the painful realization that we aren’t the ones who can save the world but, rather, we’re the ones who get saved.
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