1517 Blogcast

Bo Giertz attained infamy in Sweden for a humble adherence to unpopular, orthodox practice and doctrine.

Our Lord is not only the King of creation but the King of creativity.

God and Jeremiah may have been looking at the same person, but they were seeing very different things.

 Grace does not emancipate us from any requirement of obedience. Rather, grace allows Jesus to be obedient on our behalf that the righteous demands of the law can be fulfilled.

There are plenty of reasons why you do not already do whatever you want out of fear of the law, and you will find these reasons persist and remain long after the gospel has its way with you.

The goal of language in the mouth of a Christian isn’t to hold power for ourselves but to give it.

Except for the Augsburg Confession, Melanchthon’s Loci communes of 1521 were the most important of his writings.

We shouldn't be surprised that God chose to work through two seemingly opposite people, however, because God always chooses to work in the ways we would least expect.

For Luther, Erasmus’ Christ-less, Spirit-less theological conclusions demonstrated that behind his supposed humanistic optimism lay a profound despair and pessimism.

God’s word is creative in both the imaginative sense and the constructive sense. It brings things into existence and displays new ideas, images, and concepts we did not previously perceive.