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December 2018

December 27, 2018

God Knows When We Won’t Do Good. And He Knows When We Will.

+++ Post by Nathan Rinne "Truly, you cannot read Scripture too much; and what you...

December 31, 2017

What is Pietism?

I have been a little slow on blogging in the last couple weeks with Advent...

October 2017

October 20, 2017

Are Good Works Necessary for Salvation? A Response to John Piper

On today's program, I covered some of the recent controversy surrounding the role of good...

October 28, 2015

The Doctrine of Vocation

On today's program, I played a lecture by Rev. Lewis Polzin on the doctrine of...

June 2015

June 04, 2015

Sanctification is not Assurance: A Continued Response to Kevin DeYoung

I recently responded to a post by Kevin DeYoung on the issue of assurance here....

April 2015

April 10, 2015

Active Righteousness

This is my second lecture from the AALC Eastern Regional Conference on the two kinds...

August 2014

August 29, 2014

PCR Conference Interview on Boars in the Vineyard

I was interviewed with Chris Rosebrough by Lewis Polzin at the PCR conference regarding our...

July 2014

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...

June 2014

June 11, 2014

Sanctification in Conrad Lindberg's "Christian Dogmatics"

§30. RENOVATION. The life of the regenerated Christian must grow and develop. It is not...

June 03, 2014

Francis Pieper's Doctrine of Sanctification and Good Works

One of the figures that is essential to examine in the ongoing debates over sanctification...

June 03, 2014

Sanctification as Progressive in Lutheran Orthodoxy

People have often attacked the utilization of the term “progressive sanctification,” as a strictly reformed...

June 03, 2014

Characteristics of Lutheran Antinomianism

The subject of sanctification, good works, and antinomianism has once again come to prominence in...

June 03, 2014

Luther on the Necessity of Preaching Sanctification

"For a Christ who died for sinners who, after receiving forgiveness, will not quit their...

June 03, 2014

Forde's Article: "The Lutheran View of Sanctification"

Much of the contemporary debate on sanctification stems from Gerhard Forde's essay "the Lutheran View...

June 03, 2014

Progressive Sanctification: A Pauline Doctrines

There are two senses in which Paul speaks of sanctification. Often it is used in...

June 03, 2014

Sanctification in the Formula of Concord

As a follow up to my previous posts, here is the Formula of Concord's teaching...

June 03, 2014

Progressive Sanctification: A Lutheran Doctrine

Contemporary Lutherans seem almost afraid of the word "sanctification" or of the concept of the...

June 03, 2014

Lutherans Deny the Third Use of the Law?

On the recent Christ the Center podcast, the subject of Lutheranism again came up. This...

June 03, 2014

A Response to Kevin DeYoung and Rick Philipps on Sanctification

I was asked by a reader to respond to a Christ the Center program which...

June 03, 2014

Why Should Christians Perform Good Works?

Martin Chemnitz, in his Loci Theologici, outlines several reasons why the Christian should perform good works....