Tag: Martin Luther
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(Why the gospel of Christ moves so slow today) Luke 7:36-50 is an amazing demonstration of the gospel of God’s extravagant grace in action. In this passage, Jesus demonstrates why He is the Master Teacher. His teaching always includes a demonstration of what He is teaching. Prior to this passage, Jesus was talking about John…
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I’ve been a believer of Christ now for almost 47 years. For the first 14 years of my life, I thought I was a Christian. At least a cultural Christian. I was born into a Roman Catholic family. My earliest recollections of life with my pretty large family-14 of us including mum and dad-revolved around…
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Braaten & Jenson (1998, Eerdmans Pub)’s Union with Christ, The New Finnish Interpretation of Luther, continues to yield innumerable riches of insights into the gospel of God and of Christ for me. I’m reading and studying the book…again! In pages 14 to 15, this astounding truth brought me much delight. “Faith means justification precisely on…
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This post will touch on what the gospel teaches about believers of Christ, united with Him, by faith alone, through His grace alone, according to God’s sovereign grace alone, to His glory alone, as taught in Scripture alone, but having to face the requirements of men alone when it comes to the sticky issue of…
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I am continuing my meditation upon Zechariah’s book in the Old Testament, chapter four. It’s been quite heady! The revelation by the Holy Spirit from verses one to six has been magnificent! In fact, the message of the whole chapter four, and ably commented by Phillips, is astoundingly encouraging. Even inspiring. Only the Holy Spirit…
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I’m continuing my meditation on Martin Luther’s “The Freedom of a Christian” (1520), Translated by Timothy J Wengert’s The Annotated Luther Study Edition, Fortress Press, 2016. ML quotes and explicates from Hosea 2:19, and I decided to give you the range of translations from the following versions: Legacy Standard BibleAnd I will betroth you to…