When Doctrinal Review Misses a Question
Note: This essay may be downloaded in a PDF here. Sometimes doctrinal review is like what happens frequently in court. A man driving his car across railroad tracks was struck…
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Jesus Received Up — Luke 9:51-56 [62]
51 Now it came to pass, when the time had come for Him to be received up, that He steadfastly set His face to go to Jerusalem, 52 and sent…
Law and Gospel: An Agonizing Contradiction within Ourselves
The following is from David P. Scaer, Law and Gospel and the Means of Grace, pp. 4-5 (The Luther Academy: St. Louis, 2008). According to a confessional Lutheran understanding, the law…
The Word Does Things To Us — Robert Kolb
Sixteenth century humanists were already changing biblical exegesis by finding 'a literary method for handling the narrative construction of the Bible as a whole … where discrete biblical meanings congealed…
Antinomianism and Legalism: Three Streams of Confessional Lutherans
Three streams. There are three streams that have flowed into current confessional Lutheranism. (There are more, but for present purposes, these three are sufficient to consider.) Stream One. Those born,…
“You don’t understand what you read,” she said
Our fourth grade teacher gave us reading comprehension tests. We read compositions and answered questions. My grade was a shock. One little letter said the same thing as my teacher.…