Note from CM: This coming Sunday our church, along with others around the world, will commemorate Reformation Sunday. I thought it would be fitting to look at some thoughts about this momentous movement in church history for a few days this week in preparation. • • • Another Look: God’s Righteousness I’m not ashamed ofContinue reading “Reformation Week (2018): Another Look: God’s Righteousness”
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Fridays with Michael Spencer: November 4, 2016
Note from CM: For a time Michael Spencer called himself a “Calvinist” and dwelt among the reformed. But he recognized pretty soon that there were a lot of ways he didn’t fit in. For our final “reformation consideration” this week, we present this address MS made to his friends in that world. • • •Continue reading “Fridays with Michael Spencer: November 4, 2016”
Reformation Week 2015: The “Failed” Reformation
Like all of us, Martin Luther didn’t always remember or apply his own theology in the face of life’s realities. The following story by David Lose illustrates this. This past summer I was visiting Wittenberg and heard a story about Martin Luther I hadn’t heard before that seems appropriate for those observing Reformation Sunday thisContinue reading “Reformation Week 2015: The “Failed” Reformation”
Reformation Week 2015: Another Look — God’s Righteousness
I’m not ashamed of the good news; it’s God’s power, bringing salvation to everyone who believes — to the Jew first, and also, equally, to the Greek. This is because God’s covenant justice is unveiled in it, from faithfulness to faithfulness. As it says in the Bible, “the just shall live by faith.” – RomansContinue reading “Reformation Week 2015: Another Look — God’s Righteousness”
Reformation Week 2015 — David Lose on The Pharisee, the Tax Collector, and the Reformation
Reformation Week 2015 Reformation Day is October 31 Note from CM: I love the article by David Lose from 2013 at Working Preacher that I reference in this post: “The Pharisee, the Tax Collector, and the Reformation.” I encourage you to read it in its entirety. It is a wonderful statement about the subversive natureContinue reading “Reformation Week 2015 — David Lose on The Pharisee, the Tax Collector, and the Reformation”
Reformation Week 2015 — Michael Spencer on the Reformation
Reformation Week 2015 Reformation Day is October 31 Note from CM: We begin our Reformation Week posts with an excerpt from a 2007 piece by Michael Spencer, called “Letting Some of the Air Out of the Reformation Balloon.” • • • My reading on Luther and the Reformation has changed my mind about a lotContinue reading “Reformation Week 2015 — Michael Spencer on the Reformation”
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