The first Sunday I attended a Lutheran Church, the pastor preached the Gospel. I went away thinking, “That must be their Gospel Sunday.” Having been raised in a church that preached the implications of the Gospel every week, otherwise known as the Law, I wasn’t used to hearing.

Is this the part where we dig into our bookmarks to deploy the most insane things we have seen in each other’s churches as ad hominems, or does that come later?.

How do papists handle the Council of Constance? Fascinating time in church history.

RT @VermiglisBeard: It’s interesting how Keith’s conclusion is liturgy (“performance”) isn’t magic that will automatically protect your kid….

I think this is because Lutherans are often familiar with the most extreme Reformed positions on predestination and providence. Because the Lutheran Confessions are very narrow and definite on key doctrines, we assume that the Reformed Confessions are just as narrow on their key.

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RT @HansFiene: "Protestants don't even have Marian apparitions!". Do you know what we have that's even cooler? Unlimited access to the Crea….

I will believe that the white I see is black, if the hierarchical church so defines. - Ignatius Loyola, Founder of the Jesuits. And apparently, the first Orwellian.

Daily Lectionary:. The Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”- 1 Samuel 16:7. Our appearance before.

This book develops and defends the core insight of Luther's evangelical breakthrough, that the Gospel is a Word that gives us Christ. If you are Lutheran, reading this book will help you understand your own faith in a new way. If you are Protestant but not Lutheran, this book

RT @HansFiene: The only real reason is because they don’t want to be cool and right.

There is a reason that conversion experiences never took hold for Lutherans in the same way as among some branches of the Reformed.

The Westminster Confession invites emotionalism because the assurance of salvation is given through an inner experience of "peace and joy in the Holy Ghost, in love and thankfulness to God, and in strength and cheerfulness of obedience." XIII.3 - Assurance of Faith. Where Luther.

RT @lutheranpeasant: @DBryanRhodes This is from Confessing the Gospel, a Lutheran systematics textbook. While it's not a neutral source, it….

The argument is: Jesus often spoke metaphorically. "This is my body," should be understood in the same sense as, "I am the door." We respond. "I am the door," is a different grammatical construction from, "This is my body," and they carry different senses. We can see this if we.

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