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January 2015

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:...

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 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 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 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 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 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...

October 2014

October 04, 2014

So…which Christians are really Christians?

A friend on Facebook asked one of those questions that many Christians of goodwill wrestle...

October 02, 2014

A Biblical and Confessional View of Missions: four-part workshop by Rev. Heath R. Curtis

I'm obligated to tell you that my sharing of this material does not necessarily constitute...

September 2014

September 23, 2014

The Church Fathers' Interpretation of the Rock of Matthew 16:18 ~An Historical Refutation of the Claims of Roman Catholicism, by William Webster

The following article has been posted on Just & Sinner with the permission of the...

September 19, 2014

"An interdisciplinary foray, or: A theological cat among the philosophical pigeons" by Rev. Dr. John R. Stephenson

A paper delivered at the Brock University Philosophical Society on Thursday, 18 September 2014. As an...

September 06, 2014

Gerhard Forde's view of the Law — an excerpt from Law, Life, and the Living God, by Rev. Dr. Scott Murray

Do you like what you read here? Does it pique your curiosity? Use the link...

August 2014

August 20, 2014

"The Restoration of the Divine Image Through Christ" ~ A Sermon by C. F. W. Walther on Mark 7:31-37

The Restoration of the Divine Image Through Christ Mark 7:31-37 Twelfth Sunday after Trinity, 1846...

August 19, 2014

"Justification and Life for All Men" – An examination of universal atonement in Romans 5

Adapted from a discussion from the Twitterverse; starting in medias res... The real issue diving...

August 01, 2014

A lethal cocktail: down with Kokomo

One of the things I remember about my seminary years (before I dropped out) was...

July 2014

July 31, 2014

The Place of Union with Christ in the Ordo Salutis

There has been some recent discussion on the "What Would Pless Read?" group on facebook...

July 29, 2014

Rev. Dr. Kurt Marquart: Clarifications on Objective Justification (1998)

Trawled from the now kaput blog of Rev. Paul McCain. Rev. McCain writes... From time...

July 29, 2014

Rev. Dr. Scott R. Murray on "Gospel Reductionism"

From Ch. 3, "American Lutheranism, 1961-76: A Period of Extremes"... (Nota Bene: boldface emphases mine....

July 25, 2014

We believe in… theosis?

Isn't that what the Eastern Orthodox believe in? Aren't we Lutherans different? If you say...

July 23, 2014

Luther and Chemnitz and Gerhard — Oh My! "The Simul", Free Will, and the Lutheran Fathers

There has been a fair amount of misrepresentation of Lutheranism by Lutherans in recent days...

July 22, 2014

Why it's important to say "Catholic" in Article III of the Creed

reposted from a Facebook conversation from awhile back; starting in medias res... Catholicam, while it...

July 21, 2014

"And he was baptized at once, he and all his family…"

From today's New Testament reading from the daily lection (Treasury of Daily Prayer): Then [the...

July 17, 2014

Ernst Sartorius: "Religion, the sacred band which unites man in spontaneous love to the Almighty Lord of the universe…"

From The Doctrine of the Person and Work of Christ, by Ernst Sartorius...coming very soon!...

July 12, 2014

Forensic Atonement and "Partaking of the Divine Nature"

[The following essay has been excerpted from personal correspondence and was originally posted at Pseudepigrapha:...

July 09, 2014

Three Realms, Two Kingdoms, and a Partridge in a Pear Tree

Uh oh... There's not actually a post here. Bait Now you know why I'm the...