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Another chill stream?! TFR and Melee

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Announcements! AMA! Melee Chill stream

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Is Poverty a Christian Virtue? Martin Chemnitz Answers

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What about Vestments for Lutheran Pastors?

A Narration of "What about Vestments for Lutheran Pastors?" part 1 by Arthur Carl Piepkorn Original Paper: https://www.ctsfw.net/media/pdfs/PiepkornVestmentsForPastors1.pdf

3 Reasons Lutherans Should Study PHILOSOPHY

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Traducianism: the Philosophical Side

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What is the Origin of the Soul?

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The Popes Praising Luther

It saddens me when some Roman Catholics slander holy men like Luther But it is worth reminding them as well as us that such an approach is utterly alien to the church they so ostentatiously claim to defend. 00:00 Introduction 01:57 John Paul II 07:35 Benedict XVI 12:25 Francis I

Books Every Theologian Should Read

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Does Christ Obey The Father According To His Divine Nature? An Exploration

Does God the Son Obey God the Father?

Sin Remains, but It Does Not Reign: An Exegesis of Romans 7

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Pagan or Christian? The Mystery of the Viking Wolf Cross

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1 John and the Assurance of Salvation: Assurance Maximalism in the First Epistle of John

Assurance Maximalism in the First Epistle of John

The Surprising Conversion of the Vikings - An interview w/ Fr. Murphy S.J. on Norse Christianity

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Identity Crisis - Purpose in Norse Paganism and Christianity

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The Easter Verdict: God's Justification of the World in Christ's Resurrection

A Defense of Universal Objective Justification

A Lutheran Exegesis of Romans 9

A Lutheran Exegesis of Romans 9

On Knowledge

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Theses On Lutheran Predestination

Some Considerations for a Lutheran Doctrine of Predestination

Against the Perseverance of the Saints

Against the Perseverance of the Saints

Theses on The Canon and the Antilegomena

The Canon and the Antilegomena

An Alternative Account Of Creationism -- Biblical Realism

Biblical Realism: A Theological Framework for Creation and Science

On Good Works And The Christian Life

God Delights in All His Works

On God and Suffering

God meets us through the mask of suffering

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The Sin Against the Holy Spirit: An Exegetical Analysis Through the Analogy of Faith

Rules For Reason In Theology On The Genesis 1-2 Question

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Exegeting The Scriptures According To The Analogy Of Faith

The Analogy of Faith as Hermeneutical Principle: A Defense of Its Scriptural Warrant and Exegetical Utility

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Consistent Illiberalism and Private Property: A Reply to Dr. Cooper

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In this video we continue the back and forth we've had over a couple of videos.

On Schism and Heresy in the Bible and Early Church: Including 'Schism And The Episcopacy: An Essay on Ecclesiological Mutability'

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Augustine’s story of two shipwrecked laymen

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The Rule of Faith

Introduction

The Church: Its Nature and Authority

Introduction

Synthesis of Ecclesiology and the Doctrine of the Scriptures

Synthesis of Ecclesiology and the Doctrine of the Scriptures

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Wild Michael Lofton Reply @ Christian Wagner/Lofton Beef😂😂

Some top notch trolling by Lofton

Towards a Theological Taxonomy

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Three Golden Ages in the Church

I recently finished Bengt Hagglund’s History of Theology. It’s a shoddy work, but it did remind me of something I have read in Chemnitz (and heard from other theologians as well): Nearly all the greatest fathers of the church come from a single age. This is not to ex…

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In this video I trace the slanderous claim that blessed Melanchthon misused and manipulatively quoted St Augustine in favor of the Lutheran doctrine of justification while knowing that St Augustine's teaching was not in line with his own. This slander is based on a doctored mist…

The original TRUTH UNTO GODLINESS - A conversation w/ Pastor Brian Lunn

Made with Restream Studio. Livestream on 30+ platforms at once via https://restream.io I'll interview pastor Brian Lunn about his new translation of the famous Danish catechism Truth Unto Godliness written by bishop Erik Pontoppidan Here's a link to pastor Brian Lunn's translati…

Rechritianize the West! + Danish Church History

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Paganism vs. Christianity! W/ Survive the Jive aka Tom Rowsell

Had a pleasant sit down with Tom Roswell, aka Survive the Jive, during our travels in Iceland for an interesting conversation about Paganism, Christianity and why people in our modern era are drawn toward traditional expressions of religion.

Introduction to Soteriology: Single Predestination – a Scriptural and Patristic Apology

Note: For all Biblical quotations, the NKJV is used, unless I am citing the Greek Old Testament (LXX), for which the NETS is used. The italics in Biblical quotations are from the translators to note words added for clarity that are not present in the original Hebrew, Aramaic, an…

Luther removed WICKED books from the Bible?!?!

1 Corinthians 11:2-16 an interpolation?

This post is a little different than what I typically discuss on this blog and is very niche. I’ve been listening through Mike Winger’s series on Women in Ministry recently in order to understand the evangelical landscape and also to hear what contemporary egalitaria…

On Great Books

In 1952 Encyclopaedia Britannica published Great Books of the Western World in 54 volumes. The series is probably the most famous collection of “Great Books.” The series sought to promote liberal education, give readers familiarity with the Western canon, and engage…

List of Lutheran Orthodox Works in English

Vic. Nicholas Totenhagen and I worked together to compile works from the era of Lutheran orthodoxy (roughly from the time of the reformation up through the early 1700s) available in English (and a handful of modern reprints in Latin and German). This list does not include small…

Five Arguments Against Transubstantiation

In this post I make five arguments against transubstantiation as the mechanism for the real presence of Christ in the Lord’s Supper. These arguments are not exhaustive, but they are the five I typically bring up when discussing this topic. Specifically I am arguing that th…