tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post2940935299740440370..comments2024-03-27T15:47:46.091-05:00Comments on Pastoral Meanderings: Luther the Freedom Fighter. . . Pastor Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10653554256101480140noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-15199288640292022942017-05-26T11:50:40.429-05:002017-05-26T11:50:40.429-05:00"But if you want to know Luther, you cannot o..."But if you want to know Luther, you cannot only read Luther. You much also read the Lutheran Confessions. Luther in his earthy moments informs and even entertains but the Luther that binds Lutherans is the Luther of the Lutheran Confessions."<br />Sound advice for us all, Pastor.Thank you.<br />Deacon Timothy Carter Kingsport, TN.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-7611044003202368272017-05-25T08:54:52.053-05:002017-05-25T08:54:52.053-05:00The work of the Law may be written on their hearts...The work of the Law may be written on their hearts, but a conscience combined with conflicting thoughts can become confused and apply Acts 5:29, for example, when Romans 13:1-7 is more applicable. “Americanized” Christianity, like everything else that celebrates rugged individualists, holds choice and prerogative of the individual as the highest, dearest good which affords said individual the ability to decide what the Bible is really saying without coercion from officious authoritarians. And above all, institutionalized church, big government, big labor, and big industry are all suspect and, ultimately, become absolutely corrupt and are not to be trusted. Let freedom ring! Alas, a conscience, unless it has been honed with pure doctrine (the kind of doctrine Jesus refers to in John 14:26 when He says, “All things I have said to you”), is no reliable measure or canon. It’s that simple and precarious. The truth, it seems, is a thin slice in a big fat heretical pie. Can we really blame Time Magazine for politicizing Luther and the Protestant Reformation when the vast majority of Western Christian thought can’t even get it right? That’s our Luther: The Pancho Villa of Saxony!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-26021405684641070522017-05-25T06:28:43.210-05:002017-05-25T06:28:43.210-05:00You can always count on death, taxes... and secula...You can always count on death, taxes... and secular media like Time, Life, Newsweek to totally screw up a religious story. They are Greeks, and cannot understand our foolishness. Sad and predictable.<br /><br />Jason KieferJasonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09648337362763755187noreply@blogger.com