Understanding Loaves and Signs
In the three-year lectionary, the Gospel text for the sixth Sunday after Pentecost is Mark 6:46-56. The same events are told in John 6:15-40 and Matthew 14:22-35. The disciples along…
Priority of the Word: A Bleeding Woman and a Dying Daughter
Text: Mark 5:21-43 As with other events in the ministry of Jesus, this text shows the priority of the Word of God. Before we have the Word, we might have…
Misusing Scripture: Associative Jump
Note: This article may be downloaded as a PDF document. Introduction Scripture often is misused. It happens in a variety of ways: misreading, misquoting, misinterpreting, misapplying. Let us consider one…
Come unto Me: Sin and Salvation
Many are tormented from time to time with doubts that Jesus loves them. They see something judging them on Facebook or You Tube. A works-righteousness church they left tells them…
Infant Baptism: Two Texts, Five Brief Thoughts
Two Texts Luke 18 15 Then they also brought infants to Him that He might touch them; but when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them. 16 But Jesus called…
Pastor-Elder-Bishop in Scripture
Pastor-Elder-Bishop in Scripture By T. R. Halvorson Note: This post may be downloaded as a PDF file One Office; Three Names In Scripture, there is one pastoral office that the…
Bishop Tyranny and Heresy
Bishop Tyranny and Heresy By T. R. Halvorson Note: This article may be downloaded as a PDF file. Introduction Some friends in a Lutheran congregation of a different synod from…
Dr. Kloha’s Plastic Text of Scripture: Synodical Convention Controversy
Dr. Kloha’s Plastic Text of Scripture:Synodical Convention Controversy By T. R. Halvorson NOTE: This article may be downloaded as a PDF Document Introduction The Convention Workbook 2016 of the Lutheran…
Strategic Defense of Justification: Recognize Recurring Theosis
Note: This article originally was published on October 29, 2014on Brothers of John the Steadfast This article is a layman’s plea to confessional Lutheran pastors, theologians, and doctors to consider…
Then You’ll Have a Clean Room
When I was a kid, my next door neighbor was my best friend. He was a good kid. He excelled at sports and did well in school. But when his…
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