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Dead Christians You Should Know About – Saint Patrick

Why exactly do we celebrate all of those feast days on the Church calendar? Who are all of these “saints” and why exactly should we care about them? And what does any of that have to do with ME?

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Don’t Give God the Bird – Galatians 6:7-8 (Bible Study Thursday)

God is not to be treated like He’s stupid or a bad driver on the interstate. If you sow according to your flesh by the Law and depending on your works, it’ll reap destruction. But when you sow according to the Spirit by faith in the Son of God, it’ll reap — from the Spirit — eternal life. You get what you earn, or you’re given by the Spirit what Jesus earned.

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The Uncultured Saints

Ep. 7: The Law is Bullwinkle. The Gospel is Rocky.

Moose meets Squirrel

Sometimes we think it’d be helpful to use character voices to distinguish Law and Gospel. The Law is that which God demands from us. And if you don’t fulfill it, the Law will also threaten punishment. It kind of offers salvation…if you keep it perfectly. God gives the Law to us for three good purposes, none of which are to frustrate us, but to show us who God is. In contrast, the Gospel has no threats, demands nothing from us, and doesn’t command anything from us. Instead, it proclaims that everything that needs to be done to save us all been done for us through the death of Jesus Christ on the cross, and that all of our sins are forgiven in Him.

 

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Ep. 8: Don’t They Know it’s the Third Use of the Law?

Once upon a time, there was a controversy among Lutherans. (Shocker!) One camp said the Law has no place in the life of the Christian anymore and good works will spontaneously spring forth without any sort of instruction or guidance. But when we work to set aside the Law, to free ourselves from the Law’s curse, we forget that we already ARE free of the Law’s curse, in Christ. Jesus didn’t need the Law to command or threaten Him about how to best love God and us, but He still kept it. And because we are not yet perfect in this life, we still need the Law to guide us and show us what love looks like. 

 

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