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October 2015

October 14, 2015

“Who’s Afraid of Relativism?” – and Professor James K.A. Smith?

Post by Nathan Rinne Calvin College Professor of Philosophy James K.A. Smith is a rising...

October 11, 2015

Outline for Study on Lutheran Worship Part 1

Why Does Lutheran Worship Look So Different? Part 1: Outlining Different Approaches to Worship There...

October 08, 2015

Kretzmann on the Mystical Union

These comments come from Paul E. Kretzmann's commentary on Ephesians 3:14-19. The commentaries can be...

October 08, 2015

How Did Christians 500 Years Ago “Do Church”?

Post by Nathan Rinne In just a couple of years, the 500-year anniversary of Martin...

October 07, 2015

Are Good Works Necessary to “Attain Heaven?”

The debates surrounding the nature of sanctification are never ending in both Lutheran and Reformed...

October 02, 2015

Outline for a Bible Study on the Lord’s Supper

Since the last post on baptism had such a good reception, I've decided to continue...

September 2015

September 29, 2015

Outline for a Bible Study on Infant Baptism

I'm currently doing a Bible study series in my congregation on the distinctive practices...

September 28, 2015

Jesus and Banned Books Week

Post by Nathan Rinne Yes –me talking about Banned Books Week again. As a librarian,...

September 26, 2015

Come to the Just and Sinner Conference!

The first annual Just and Sinner conference is now less than a month away, and...

September 24, 2015

What Should Christians Make of “Banned Books Week”?

Post by Nathan Rinne (update: also see my follow-up piece, Jesus and Banned Books Week)...

September 23, 2015

Excerpt from The Great Divide

For anyone interested in my recent book The Great Divide: A Lutheran Evaluation of Reformed...

September 12, 2015

Reframe?!: Is Kim Davis Actually Proclaiming Christ’s Free Forgiveness of Sins?

Post by Nathan Rinne Rod Dreher is saying that the Kim Davis case is a...

September 08, 2015

Are Confessional Lutherans Just Too Sure of Themselves?

Post by Nathan Rinne Recently, I heard a Lutheran brother say that we do our...

August 2015

August 20, 2015

“Change or Die” or “Change and Die”?: As Pressure Mounts, What Should Christian Colleges and Universities Say?

Post by Nathan Rinne I know for a fact that there are Christian universities and...

August 06, 2015

How Darwin Helps Us See the Truth: Life is About Helping Our Neighbor Survive

Post by Nathan Rinne “You have the God you believe in.” – Martin Luther [warning:...

July 2015

July 29, 2015

Why Every Christian Should be Tempted by “Radical Lutheranism”

Post by Nathan Rinne (Or at least some aspects of “Radical Lutheranism”) There is evidence...

July 23, 2015

Why Young Earth Creationism is Too Liberal

Post by Nathan Rinne (goes for all of my posts here, but please note that...

July 22, 2015

On Gay “Marriage”

(by Eric Phillips) The practice of homosexuality is a sin. It’s not just a perversion...

July 21, 2015

This Week’s Program: The Ecclesiastical Text and Textual Criticism

On today's program I discussed the Ecclesiastical Text theory of Theodore Letis. I explained my...

July 18, 2015

The Ecclesiastical Text Versus the Critical Text

I wrote a post about the ESV a few weeks ag0 (which you can find...

July 17, 2015

Biblical Patriarchy: An Introduction

Since the rise of feminism in the early twentieth century, conservative Christians have attempted to...

July 14, 2015

Trying to Purge the Synergism from ‘Intuitu Fidei’

(By Eric Phillips) Having preached on Eph. 1:3-14 this past Sunday (see below for a...

July 14, 2015

“Ad Fontes” Benedict Option!: From the World to the Word

Post by Nathan Rinne Rod Dreher is one of my favorite columnists. I consider his...

July 09, 2015

A Review of “IndoctriNation”

As a father of two young boys, I have had to think extensively about the...

July 07, 2015

Pastors, Don’t Stop Performing Weddings

After the recent SCOTUS decision, I have seen a number of different responses from Christian...

July 07, 2015

Is “You May Not Use Your Conscience to Guide My Behavior” a Christian Way of Speaking?

Post by Nathan Rinne "The aim of our charge is love that issues from a...

June 2015

June 30, 2015

America, Behold Your God [of “Civil Religion”]: the Underlying Meaning of Gay Marriage and Other Incoming Issues (Summary)

Post by Nathan Rinne A few days ago, Pastor Cooper posted a link to an...

June 24, 2015

Martin Luther: Christ Means to Draw the World’s Wrath and to Pick a Fight

Post by Nathan Rinne And as my pastor puts it, summing up Martin Luther's interpretation...

June 23, 2015

A Biblical Theology of the Family: The New Testament

This is the second in a series of lectures I gave on the Biblical view...

June 23, 2015

Tullian Tchividjian, Evangelical Catholicism, and More

Today I did a second question and answer program on a variety of topics. First,...