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WHERE IS THIS WRITTEN?
From time to time, it is helpful to list some of the main teachings of the Bible along with some of the main passages where these teachings are found: The one, true God is the Triune God – one God in three PersonsDeuteronomy 6:4; Matthew 3:16-17; Matthew 28:19; 2 Corinthians 13:15 The Scriptures are the verbally inspired and inerrant Word of GodJohn 10:35; 2 Timothy…
WHERE THE LOVE OF GOD LEADS
On the 10th of November in ’75, the Edmund Fitzgerald sank beneath the waves of Lake Superior in a terrible storm. Gordon Lightfoot composed a ballad to immortalize the 29 men who went down with the ship. His ballad, the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, has a sad line in it that asks: “Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the…
THE CONSOLATION OF BRETHREN
In one of our Lutheran Confessions, The Smalcald Articles, Martin Luther talks about the different ways in which the Gospel gives us counsel and help. Predictably he says, “Through the spoken Word…Secondly, through Baptism, Thirdly, through the holy Sacrament of the Altar, Fourthly through the power of the keys.” And then Luther adds this neat little phrase: “And also…
WHERE IS THIS WRITTEN?
In the second chapter of his second letter, Peter releases a blistering attack on false teachers. We know that false doctrine is poisonous. We know that true doctrine is the only antidote. In the Small Catechism Luther was accustomed to ask: “Where is this written?” He then set down the Bible passages where a given doctrine or teaching was found. By way of review…
“DO NOT HINDER THEM” – A REVIEW OF INFANT BAPTISM
“Baptism now saves you,” says Peter in his first epistle (1 Peter 3:21). Baptism is never spoken of as something we do for God, but as something God does for us – an expression of the gospel. In The Gospel According To St. Mark, we are introduced to John’s “baptism for the forgiveness of sins,”…