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Author: Rev. Bernie Seter

Mercy and Faith – thank God for signs.

“Luther likens faith to ‘butter in the sunshine.’ While Luther will always maintain that trust in the promise makes baptism efficacious, he is wary of focusing on faith: ‘One must believe, but we neither should nor can know it...

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KFUO and Mercy

Dedication of the KFUO studios at the IC in St. Louis I had a chance to be at the dedication of the new KFUO studios at the International Center in St. Louis.  Here you see President Harrison doing the dedication ceremony over...

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Mercy and Self Forgiveness

“The forgiveness of sin,” as Claus Harms in one of the most famous theses from the 1817 Reformation Jubilee would say, “still cost money in the Sixteenth Century, in the Nineteenth it is completely free, and everyone freely...

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Mercy and the Demons

  Jesus heals the Gadarene Demoniac The Gospel lesson for today is Luke 8:26-39. The best tactic the devil ever used was to convince people that he doesn’t exist. Some one once told me that in Africa you can come and...

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Mercy and Being a “Lord”.

Martin Luther was writing on Romans 14:8.“whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s”  He does an interesting thing and takes off on the word “Lord’s” as used here and says  “Yes, indeed, Domini in the genitive...

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