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This month we Lutherans celebrate the Reformation, and let’s be honest, at times our celebration can come off to non-Lutherans as a bit self-congratulatory. But the Lutheran Reformation did not begin with the five Solas, the doctrine of salvation by grace through faith alone, or “drawing the line” on Christ’s real presence in the…
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“For I know their works and their thoughts, and the time is coming to gather all nations and tongues. And they shall come and shall see my glory.” (Isa. 66:18) Christians easily recognize this prophecy from Isaiah as a prediction of God’s call to all humanity through Jesus Christ to be part of “the…
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In his seminal work, Orthodoxy, G. K. Chesterton wrote: Joy, which was the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian. … The tremendous figure which fills the Gospels towers in this respect, as in every other, above all the thinkers who ever thought themselves tall. … There was something…