1517 Blogcast

This article begins an eight-part series inspired by the Lenten themes of catechesis, prayer, and repentance found in the Lord’s Prayer as Luther taught it in his Small Catechism.

The implications were clear: Jesus’ death destroyed the things that distinguished people as educated or uneducated, rich or poor, free or enslaved, black or white, pious or godless.

The Scriptures are not a collection of platonic ideals laid out for us to strive after. Rather, they are God’s truth given to His beloved church.

His resurrection reveals that Jonah, and all of us, even the evilest people, are salvageable, even from suicide, in Jesus' death and resurrection.

The following is an excerpt from "Finding Christ in the Straw," written by Robert M. Hiller (1517 Publishing, 2020).

It would do us well to expand what we mean when we say catechesis and consequently broaden the reach of theological education into daily life.

This is our frontier religion: God is waiting to shower blessings upon us if only we will unlock those blessings with the right kind of works, and a sufficient quantity of the same.

God hides from us on purpose so he can be God for us without limits or measures in the way of faithful, loving-kindness.

David Anderson answers questions about his new book, Faithless to Fearless.

Notes: Faithless to Fearless

Your faith is not dependent on whether or not you suffer well.  Your faith is dependent on the fact that Christ did.