Category: Bernie’s Posts

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“The progressive has turned original sin, which afflicts all mankind, into political error, which conveniently afflicts his opponents and not himself.” — Anthony Esolen, from his book “NOSTALGIA: Going Home In A...

There was a rise of what was called “false liberalism” that arose after the Reformation.  It was called “Socinianism”.  This is from Wikipedia so take it with salt but it is pretty close. The Socinians...

I am still fascinated by an article from 1939 by W. Arndt talking about the challenges to the church back them. He writes “In our age the tendency which cares little about what a person believes and teaches and which in...

In 1939 the Theological Journal Lehre und Wehre became, as I understand it, Concordia Theological Monthly.  That was a long time ago and even journals today wonder if they can survive, or should, a theologian by the name of...

Fightings and fears within, without, is a pretty good description of life in the church.  Lutheran theology to my mind is nuanced.  Imagine growing up when removal of prayer was going on in the schools and people, Christian...

I remember writing this 3 years ago but I wanted to bring it back because of statues and portraits being removed and military bases needing to be renamed.  And before you have a knee jerk reaction  I have no truck or sympathy...

  There is a Finnish scholar who writes about Luther’s Theology of the Cross and how it reflects reality.  Theologies of glory are worrisome especially in times like these when everything is topsy turvy and there...

So called social justice warriors and dialectitions have plans that are laid out and are not secrets.  Unlike their destruction of freedom of speech for their competitor’s, their competitors will bend over backwards to let...

Bil Sharpe was a dear friend of mine who has been on these pages many times and even had his own column section. I took him fishing one time which was a wonderful experience for both of us. He came from Fargo and met me...

The ministry of the Holy Spirit-proceeding from the Father and the Son and mediating to man the redemption established through the Lord Jesus -like other truths of divine revelation, is of the utmost practical importance. The...

One my professors years ago said that we did the Holy Spirit a disservice when we pay too much attention to him.   Some of you were shocked by that and spend a great deal of time discussing it. Well to help out I had another...