First: By our natural birth we are born in sin, members of the kingdom of the world, by nature children of wrath. John 3:6; Eph. 2:3; Ps. 51:5 Second: This corruption of the human heart requires a new birth, the implanting of a new life. John 3:7; Rom. 8:6-8. Third: Because there can be no entrance into the Kingdom of God without this new birth. John 3:3; II. Cor. 5: 17. Fourth: For as by our birth we become partakers... Read more
This week’s pseudepodcast revisited the topic of everyone’s favorite non-prophet organization: the Jehovah’s Fitness Test… Hold on, I’m getting a phone call… Hello? Yes. Yes. Srsly? No… Alright, I will fix. Kthxbai. Correction: the Jehovah’s WITNESSES. The pseudepodcasters finished up personal testimony time in grand style, interviewing their very own Matt Fenn, who used to be part of the Jehovah’s Fitness Test, but left it for the green pastures and still waters of the catholic faith, which except a man... Read more
A paper delivered at the Brock University Philosophical Society on Thursday, 18 September 2014. As an historian of theology I cannot avoid the history of philosophy, and because at certain periods of history these two tributaries of thought have come together in almost a common river, I wish I had more than a dilettantish grasp of philosophy from the Pre-Socratics to the present day. Perhaps the most significant episode in my own (inadequate) philosophical formation happened through listening to... Read more
First: As has already been stated, we may conceive of an order in the work of the Holy Spirit: (1) Calling. (2) Illumination. (3) Regeneration, or the implanting of the new life, that faith may be attained. (4) Conversion, which begins in repentance and ends in faith. (5) Justification, for we are justified by faith. (6) At the moment a man is justified, then at the same time he is mystically united to God, and adopted as a son of... Read more
On today’s program, I gave an overview of American Lutheran history, and mentioned some of the most important figures within early American Lutheranism. Here is the program. Read more
Just the other morning (when I wrote this) my just-turned-two-year old got up early, presumably to hang out with me. He didn’t talk much (never does) – seemed clear to me that he just wanted to be with me. To be in my presence. Before leaving for work I returned him to his mother in bed, gave him and her a kiss, and said goodbye. He just seemed to be taking it all in. God designed life to be based... Read more
…and do you know who it is? It’s THIS GUY: Oops. I mean…THIS GUY (the old one): In this episode we dive into another “Swimming the Rhine” testimony and this time it’s our very own Levi who shares his own shocking journey from Non-Denominational/Calvary Chapel/Evangelicalism, through doubting the faith, temptations of Rome, and finally coming home to the idiosyncratic arms of Confessional Lutheranism. Listen close Levi’s kids having too much fun in the background. Featured content: How I became and... Read more
‘Fear you all who rule over the earth. ‘Know you nations and peoples that Christ is our God. ‘For he spoke and they came to being, he commanded and they were created; he put everything under our feet and delivered us from the wish of our enemies…. –recently unveiled 1,500 year old words from a Christian’s “charm” to ward off evil (see here) . It’s not just those in charge of the California University system (yes, the new mandate applies... Read more
I’ve been traveling, so I’m posting this later than usual. Don’t worry, it hasn’t gone stale. We’ve been keeping it in plastic wrap. Read more
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