When Lutheran seminarians learn about the controversy over the Lord’s Supper, it normally features Luther as protagonist and Zwingli as antagonist in a debate concerning the literal interpretation of the words of institution, all playing out in the public forum of 1529’s Marburg Colloquy. In her most recent book, Amy Nelson Burnett offers an alternative view …
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If you asked the proverbial man on the street “What is a Pastor?”, you would undoubtedly get a wide swath of divergent and potentially confusing answers.
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Until the last enemy is destroyed (1 Cor 15:26) death will remain a reality for the people of God. Death is, on the one hand, the enemy of the Christian. It is, on the other hand, an enemy that God turns to the good of his people, leading them through death to eternal rest. Blessed indeed are the dead, for they rest from their labors (Rev. 14:3).
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