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“I know of no God but this one in the manger”

Reason and will would ascend and seek above, but if you would have joy, bend yourself down to this place. There you will find that boy given for you who is your Creator lying in a manger. I will stay...

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“In my heart there is no quality that is called faith or charity”

Melancthon wrote to a guy called Brenz to clarify the difference between the Protestant position on justification and Augustine’s.  The difference is vital! Luther being Luther, he couldn’t help adding...

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Let us have a heart

[On preaching] A simple and conversational yet forceful delivery commands both respect and response. Enthusiasm inspires. Logic is convincing, the illogical confusing. As preachers let us have a heart....

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“A universe with a god would look very different to a universe without one.”

“A universe with a god would look very different to a universe without one.” Richard Dawkins. It’s one of the wisest things Dawkins has ever said. Believers and unbelievers alike should take heed....

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Easter Saturday – The Rejection of Theism and Atheism

Today is definitely the day to dust off Alan Lewis’s wonderful Between Cross and Resurrection: A Theology of Easter Saturday.  As he meditates on Eberhard Jungel’s theology, Lewis writes [Jungel] in...

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Quotes on the human condition – please submit your own…

From Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: The Gulag Archipelago If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and...

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Extinguishing the Fiery Arrows

Emma’s just written a stonking post on combating the lies which threaten to overwhelm us. She quotes an example from Luther’s Galatians commentary: “Sir Devil,” we may say, “I am not afraid of you. I...

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Christ’s Influence: Philip Schaff

Jesus of Nazareth, without money and arms, conquered more millions than Alexander, Caesar, Mohammed and Napoleon; without science and learning He shed more light on things human and divine than all the...

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Some Luther Gems on Preaching

The Threefold Word “Christ is completely wrapped in the Scriptures, just as the babe is wrapped in swaddling clothes. Preaching is the manger in which he lies and is apprehended, and from which we take...

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Sin and Salvation in Church Dogmatics

A grand title! And all I have are three little quotes. Still… enjoy… Our Problem: [Man] has turned his back on the salvation which actually comes to him. He does not find the fulfilment of his being in...

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