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Jesus is the Resurrection and the Life. Anyone who believes in Him, though they may die, shall live. And whoever lives and believes in Him shall never die... Do you believe this?

@TD_Barrett @sincead33 What would you recommend I read to gain a better grasp of Augustine's spirituality? I'm re-reading his Confessions right now.

@sincead33 Solution: everyone shift from his theology and focus on his spirituality. That’s where he really shines.

There’s a reason Protestants habitually quote St. Augustine on concupiscence and the real presence and Catholics quote him on purgatory and the authority of the Church, but both sides tend to be more silent on the other issues. 😁 Dare we cope?

#OTD June 16, 1539: During an ordination exam in Wittenberg, Martin Luther was confronted with the claim: “Faith justifies; faith is a work; therefore works justify.” He responded: “Faith justifies not as a work, nor as a quality, nor as knowledge, but as assent of the will and firm confidence in the mercy of God. For if faith were only knowledge, then the devil would certainly be saved… Accordingly faith must be understood otherwise than as knowledge. In part, however, it is assent.” Luther, Table Talk No. 4655 (June 16, 1539), LW 54:359–360

An LCMS overture to rename secular titles of district presidents and Synod president to bishop was struck down by the LCMS Floor Committee, preventing it from coming to a convention vote. Notably, the proposal appears to have greater support among younger members of the LCMS.

“I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world.” ~John 6:51~

"For the preaching ought to be nothing but an explanation of the words of Christ, when he instituted the mass and said, 'This is my body, this is my blood,' etc. What is the whole gospel but an explanation of this testament?" -- Martin Luther, Treatise on the New Testament, 1520

@PastorBowman Where can I get my hands on Gerhard's Loci without having to sell my soul?

New book moving from the great pile of the unread to currently reading. It's in no way inspired by the last week's interaction with Mormons 😉

@CathRoser No worries. I was pretty pretty sure he's talking about Man outside of grace. "By nature, Man cannot love God above all things." I'm not 100% sure, though. Apologies if I came across as rude.

@PrimusPeccator Rechecked the latin, i translated it funky mb

@CathRoser That's not what he's saying.

@PrimusPeccator It is in the quote He’s saying that “to love God above all things” is fictitious by nature

his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones

@based_white_boy @nolibertarians They almost renamed DPs to Bishops?!?! We were so close to greatness.

@nolibertarians Renaming DPs to bishops and the overtures to reconsider women’s suffrage were the main ones on my radar

All the actually good/cool overtures proposed for the LCMS convention were either axed or gayified by the floor committees. Sad.

“And such as is the union of the Word with baptism, is the agreement of milk with water; for it receives it alone of all liquids, and admits of mixture with water, for the purpose of cleansing, as baptism for the remission of sins.” — St Clement of Alexandria ( Bk I • Ch VI )

"But I will see your face in righteousness. I will be satisfied with the seeing of your glory." · Psalm 16:15 LXX

St. Bernard of Clairvaux Sermon on the Canticle S. 24 "The death of faith is the departure of love. Do you believe in Christ? Do the works of Christ so that your faith will live; love will animate your faith, deeds will reveal it."

Those who have been absolved by the power of the keys should prefer to die and renounce the whole of creation rather than doubt their absolution. ~Martin Luther, WA I:631.19-20

Christ died for the ungodly

#OTD June 15, 1520: In the papal encyclical Exsurge Domine, Leo X condemns Martin Luther on 41 of counts of heresy, branding him an enemy of the Roman Catholic Church. After the encyclical, Luther's works were burned in Rome.

God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

The LCMS under President Harrison has maintained one of the highest convert to cradle ratios in American Christianity, with 1 in 3 LCMS members being converts. This number is substantially higher than that of both Baptists and Roman Catholics.

You may be familiar with provincial, rural Catholicism, but are you acquainted with rural Lutheranism?