Is faith a work?  Something we do?  Thesis 13 of Walther’s Law and Gospel when we finally get around to it in a particularly chatty episode of The God Whisperers.

It’s snack time at the God Whisperers.  We’re talking Thesis 12 of Walther Law & Gospel and the right relationship of contrition and faith.  And oh, by the way, some Barenaked Ladies along with Donofrio’s goofy diet.  Great theology and snacks!

Space Robot Spirituals, Operation Godzilla, St. Onofre, the naked hermet, nude beaches, and Thesis 11 of CFW Walther’s Proper Distinction of the Law and the Gospel.  Oh, and great root beer, too.

Craig plays his ukulele (sort of), and we talk about the nature of sin, grace, faith and love from Thesis X of Walther’s Proper Distinction of the Law and the Gospel.  Also “Spinal Tap” and a few other cinematic digressions.

Law and Gospel are confused when we mix up our insides and outsides.  When it comes to forgiveness, life, and salvation, don’t look inward but outward.  It’s all extra nos, outside of ourselves in the Word and the Sacraments.

Cwirla talks about his new iPad, Donofrio discusses his upcoming trip to Hawaii, and then some whisperings about the target of the Law and the Gospel – smug sinners, repentant sinners, and sinners in general.  Can you tell the difference?  We’re talking about it.

A comparison of our Holy Week celebrations, more food talk, Cwirla’s new iPad, and eventually a scintillating discussion of the proper order of faith and good works from Walther’s 7th thesis on the proper distinction of the Law and the Gospel.

Jesus a “new lawgiver” in the way of Moses?  No, that was Charlton Heston!  That and much more on this episode of the God Whisperers.

Yes, that’s right.  More heaping globs of Law and Gospel, properly distinguished, courtesy of the Manly Drs.  Without this distinction, the Bible remains a sealed book, or at least a book of seeming contradictions.  Is it wrath or mercy?  Damnation or salvation?  Yes!  Check it out!

We’re talking the Law and the Gospel as taught by the Holy Spirit in the “school of experience,” according to Walther.  If experience is a school, then your funeral is graduation day.