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March 2016

March 16, 2016

I Am Not Your Pastor, and That’s a Good Thing

After the recent flood of events surrounding a number of disgraced pastors who have gained...

September 2015

September 17, 2015

What Should the Christian Do With Wicked Desires and Thoughts?

Post by Nathan Rinne On my heart imprint your image, Blessed Jesus, king of grace,...

July 2015

July 17, 2015

Diagnosing Christian Bad Boy Syndrome

Post by Nathan Rinne Actually, I am dealing with Lutheran bad boys in particular here,...

June 2015

June 10, 2015

All Philosophy is Morality and Teleology – and Other Tacitly Known Truths?

Post by Nathan Rinne “In this is love, not that we have loved God but...

January 2015

January 16, 2015

Blessed Martin Luther: "The Communion of the People"

So far we have dealt with the mass and the function of the minister or...

January 14, 2015

A Brief Response to Kolb and Arand on Theosis

An excerpt from a book I'm currently writing: In the context of active righteousness, Kolb...

January 08, 2015

Theologoumena from a great theologian: Rev. Dr. Kurt Marquart on who may be saved

HT: Rev. David Jay Webber Another matter which has worried me for some time:...

January 03, 2015

Why we Should Stop Using the Term "Pietism"

These thoughts are a continuation of Nathan Rinne's post Playing the Pietist Card. It is...

January 02, 2015

Interviews on the Five Points of Calvinism

I was recently featured in a series of interviews on issues etc. about the five...

December 2014

December 16, 2014

Blessed Martin Luther: "The person who can rightly divide Law and Gospel has reason to thank God."

From Martin Luther's Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians (1535), trans. Theodore Graebner (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Publishing...

December 15, 2014

ConcordCast: a daily audio broadcast of the Lutheran Confessions

Are you interested in learning more about what Lutherans believe, teach, and confess? Do...

December 13, 2014

Behold, and it came to pass, a new Lutheran T-shirt…

Back in 2007 or so, New Reformation Press started marketing this shirt: You've probably seen...

December 08, 2014

"Why do you talk so much about sanctification?"

To get at an answer to this question (often put to me more in the...

November 2014

November 24, 2014

"The Plague of Sin" and "The Cure of a Living Physician": Bad News and Good News from Blessed Doctor Luther

Original sin is not a quiescent thing, but a kind of continuous motion or entelechy,...

November 22, 2014

"Who's right, St. Paul or St. James?" The Formula of Concord on faith and its fruit.

When people try to undermine justification sola fide as it is taught in Romans with...

November 21, 2014

"God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, who is the eternal and essential righteousness, dwells by faith in the elect…"

The following quote is taken from a comment by Rev. Dr. Holger Sonntag from an...

November 21, 2014

Francis Pieper: "The Necessity of Sanctification and Good Works" and "The Imperfection of Sanctification"

From Christian Dogmatics, Vol. III, (CPH, St. Louis: 2011) pp. 20-37 The Necessity of Sanctification and...

November 19, 2014

Resources from Dr. Joel Biermann on the Two Kinds of Righteousness

This is a compilation of many of the available resources from Joel Biermann regarding his...

November 18, 2014

Christ Dwells Within Us, And We Should Be Talking About It.

I often hear Lutherans say things like: "It's not about Christ in us, but Christ...

November 14, 2014

The Tyranny of Fruit Checking: A Lecture from the PCR Conference

The lecture I gave titled "The Tyranny of Fruit Checking" at the Pirate Christian Radio...

November 14, 2014

Theosis is Glorification

Oposition to the doctrine of theosis among Lutherans seems to be rooted in the fear...

November 14, 2014

Pastor Sonntag's Extremely Helpful Comments on the Brothers of John the Steadfast Blog

[Note: this post was accidently published earlier today under Trent Demarest's name by me, Nathan...

November 14, 2014

C.F.W. Walther on Sanctification

In a recent comment on this site Rev. Paul T. McCain offered a snippet of...

November 12, 2014

What does the sanctified life actually look like?

All of this discussion about sanctification has sometimes gotten into abstract categories, and there has...

November 11, 2014

A Response to Pastor Matt Richards and Dr. Jack Kilcrease Regarding the Third Use of the Law

NOTE: When it comes to the best way of how to understand Christian anthropology, I...

November 11, 2014

Pr. Richard's "Scaer-quotes" in context

On Sunday Pr. Matt Richard posted an excerpt from Dr. David Scaer's book Law and Gospel...

November 05, 2014

Johann Gerhard on the Mystical Union

This is a short selection of citations from Gerhard's Sacred Meditations (the edition put out...

November 05, 2014

Defining Christification

There has been some extensive discussion surrounding my book on Brothers of John the Steadfast...

November 04, 2014

The vital place of union in Lutheran soteriology: Part 1 of n-or-"Thank God for Theosis"

This post is a slightly highly modified version of a comment I made on an article by...

November 01, 2014

The Mariology of John 19

By Rev. David Graves When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved...