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  • Justification is not possible without the Holy Spirit

    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…

  • Jesus gets what He calls for! And who!

    Yesterday morning (Tuesday, April 29th), my meditation upon Scriptures was in Luke’s gospel, chapter 5, verses 27 – 31. This is the wonderful story of Levi the tax collector getting a call from Heaven! The context of Luke chapter 5, among other teaching points of Jesus spread throughout, is the calling of His disciples. Jesus…

  • One with Christ and the miraculous.

    Premise: how could it even be possible for a believer, predestined, elect from all eternity, called through the gospel of grace to believe upon the Savior of the world, who when He walked Palestine, never had a day without miracles, to think that the walk of faith is bereft of miracles? How is it even…