For the sake of your soul, ignore and avoid any pastor or teacher who cannot affirm:
‘Baptism saves.’
For the sake of your soul, ignore and avoid any pastor or teacher who cannot affirm:
‘Baptism saves.’
The doctrine and theology of any person who or group that gets the Sacraments wrong is deeply suspect — and virtually always wrong.
If King Solomon undertook a discussion of which OS architecture is best, even he would, then, be a fool.
The question is not whether or not profit is a good motivator (it is), but what sort of behavior profit motivates.
Windmills are stupid and so are Texas politicians. This is not an either-or situation.
If only we didn’t have two warring parties of morons, then we might actually be able to achieve something with regard to sustainability and environmental measures in the US.
We have created for ourselves a dystopia the likes of which fiction writers could never have imagined, but that is not the worst of it — tens of millions defend the dystopia, and urge it onward.
‘Wrongthink’ podcasters bring more people to God than Twitter pastors who fear giving offense.
The ‘thieves and robbers’ of the Confessions (i.e., what the Book of Concord calls Baptists) does not even begin to cover the reality. Baptist theology is works righteousness from top to bottom. They turn the Sacraments into works; they turn faith into works. Works, works, works.
“[F]or dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.”