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Where the heck is Dublin, CA?
Timotheos

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And the Winner Is….

…Chaz. Yes, you are correct. And Ben, you get a round of applause as well. (Chaz and Ben played “Church Trivia.”)
John H. Tietjen wrote those words in an article in the Concordia Theological Monthly in 1969. It was in that year that he was elected to be the president of Concordia Seminary in St. Louis. [...]

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Church Trivia

Are you ready to play?
Name the seminary president who said the following.
“But must we begin with justification at all? In fact, do we begin the theological task with some basic thematic expression of the gospel?…No! Not if we want to assure a relevant proclamation of the gospel! For theology to be relevant, the theological task [...]

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The Heidelberg Disputation: Thesis XXV

“He is not righteous who works much, but he who, without work, believes much in Christ” (Luther, 1518).

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“Sin Boldly” in Context

That phrase is so often quoted out of context and contrary to Luther’s intention, that I thought I’d post the entire context of the phrase. It’s from a letter he wrote to Melanchthon in 1521.
If you are a preacher of grace, then preach a true and not a fictitious grace; if grace is true, [...]

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The Heidelberg Disputation: Thesis XXIV

“Yet that wisdom [law of God] is not of itself evil, nor is the law to be evaded; but without the theology of the cross man misuses the best in the worst manner” (Luther, 1518).

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Christ-Idolatry, Moby, and Mormons

A friend of ours at church gave us a copy of the most recent Relevant Magazine, which contains an interview with Moby. Now I (along with every other person) bought Play. The incessant playing of the songs on that album made me want to own it (one of the few of which that [...]

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Book Tag II

Okay, here we go…
Imagine that a local philanthropist is hosting an event for local high school students and has asked you to pick out five to ten books to hand out as door prizes. At least one book should be funny and at least one book should provide some history of Western Civilization and at [...]

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The Presentation of the Augsburg Confession, June 25, 1530

“Sire,” said Margrave George the Confessor, one of the signers of the Augsburg Confession, when Emperor Charles V demanded that the Protestant princes participate in the Corpus Christi procession at the Diet of Augsburg, “I would rather kneel down on this spot and have my head chopped off than give up the Word of God.” [...]

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Collect for The Nativity of St. John the Baptist

O Lord God, heavenly Father, who through Thy servant John the Baptist didst bear witness that Jesus Christ is the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world, and that all who believe in Him shall inherit eternal life, we humbly pray Thee to enlighten us by Thy Holy Spirit that we [...]

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