Is Martin Luther a Higher Critic?
“The Scriptures are a manger in which Christ lies.” What does that mean? Martin Luther uses a metaphor to describe the Holy Scriptures. They are, he...
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Roots Campus Ministry Lectures: The Next 500 Years of the Reformation
It was wonderful to be invited by the students of Lindenwood to reflect on the next 500 years of the Reformation. What a question! In these videos I reflect on....
Martin Luther on “The One Great Book”
Here’s another little gem from Lenker’s introduction in Luther’s Genesis, a quotation from Luther on having too many books. “The aggrega...
What We Can and Can’t Do, the Two Tables of the Law
To warm us up, here is some handy theological vocabulary: “The Two Tables of the Law.” When Moses brought the Ten Commandments down from Mt. Sinai t...
Teaching the Conscience to the Youth, A Survey
This essay was prepared for the Doxology Collegium, and was published in the second volume of Seelsorger, A Journal of Pastoral Care. -BW The aim of our ...
God Hates Visionary Dreaming
God hates visionary dreaming; it makes the dreamer proud and pretentious. The man who fashions a visionary ideal of community demands that it be realized by God...
The Idolatry of Giving to God
God doesn’t need anything from us. He is not poor or hungry or cold. He is not in want. For every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle on...