An insight from tonight's Bible study on Romans 4: It's not just that we can't work our way to righteousness by perfect law-keeping. Moreover, the sort of relationship that comes by working is of a different kind from a relationship based on faith. A servant works for wages, and the relationship depends on the work…
First chicken, then egg
You are not rightly distinguishing Law and Gospel in the Word of God if you first preach … sanctification and then justification, … or first good works and then grace. C.F.W. Walther, Law and Gospel, Thesis VII
What do you do?
Sermon on Reformation Sunday, preached at Our Saviour Lutheran Church on 30 October 2011 Text: Romans 3:19–28 To listen to the sermon, click here. We live in a world that is obsessed with doing. When forced to talk to new people, most people in Britain will first talk about the weather and, if the conversation…
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