On today’s program I was joined again by Rev. Lewis Polzin to continue our discussion of Henry Eyster Jacob’s book A Summary of the Christian Faith. We finished our discussion on Christology by discussing the communication of attributes from Christ’s divine to his human nature. Here is the program Read more
Post by Nathan Rinne “They love the truth when it enlightens them, they hate it when it accuses them.” — St. Augustine “There is in everyone a quest for truth and also a rebellion against its demands, and a doubting of the truth when it is discovered….there are many partial truths. Jesus is the truth, the whole truth.” — Richard Wurmbrand, founder of the Voice of the Martyrs +++ Just last week, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton made news by talking... Read more
On today’s program I was joined by Rev. Lewis Polzin to continue discussing Henry Eyster Jacobs book A Summary of the Christian Faith. We began talking about Christology, and spent the entire program discussing early Christological heresies. Here is the program Read more
Today is a historic day in Western civilization, as the Supreme Court case regarding homosexual marriage begins. I think many of us expect what the outcome of this case is going to be, and that soon same-sex marriage is going to be accepted in all fifty of these United States. As the culture continues down this path, those who hold to traditional views of family are going to be continually marginalized as being on the “wrong side of history.” I... Read more
Post by Nathan Rinne Note: This post is an updated and mostly abbreviated version of one I did at my own blog originally titled “Intelligent Design Even an Atheist Can Love: a Not-So-New “Logos” Reasserted”. I also did a follow-up to that post titled “The Gods of our Brahmins: Thomas Nagel’s and Rebecca Goldstein’s Intelligent Designers”. In sum: Years ago, Phillip Johnson’s Darwin on Trial started what came to be known as the “intelligent design movement”, which made the case... Read more
These two sermons were preached on the last two Sundays at Faith Lutheran Church in Watseka, IL 1 John 1 1 John 3:1-7 Read more
On today’s program I played a lecture from Rev. Rich Shields given at the 2015 AALC Eastern Regional Conference here in Watseka, IL. This followed my lectures on passive righteousness and active righteousness. The topic is the distinction between law and gospel. Here is the program. Read more
Post by Nathan Rinne Note: I am republishing this [slightly revised] book review I did in 2013 of Dreyfus and Kelly’s All Things Shining (2011). I was interested to see the book mentioned often (not favorably) in James K.A. Smith’s book How (Not) to be Secular: Reading Charles Taylor (2014), which deals in particular with Taylor’s magnum opus A Secular Age. Re: the title, the answer is this: because only the risen Christ is Lord of all and the giver... Read more
Christians like to talk quite a bit about changing culture. This is a concern for people especially as we see the continued moral decay of our society, and a church that continues to accommodate itself to the ideals of the time. Yet, the ways that the church has tried to have a positive impact on society have often been less than helpful. While, as a Lutheran, I don’t think it’s the church’s primary role to “redeem the culture,” I believe... Read more
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New Release: Commentary on Matthew by Charles F. Schaeffer
The Lutheran Commentary Series is the first series of Lutheran commentaries written in English. These volumes were compiled by Henry Eyster Jacobs, who called upon the greatest Lutheran exegetes in America to write a series of commentaries on the New Testament. The first commentary was published in 1895, and the publications continued through the early twentieth century. These volumes cover the entirety of the New Testament. The volumes in this series are unabashedly Lutheran. Each author holds to a firm... Read more