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"Let us revisit Irenaeus, this very modern yet ancient teacher of the church. He first began to teach me, thirty years ago, when I was a wet-behind-the-ears theologian." -Chad Bird
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Christ Hold Fast
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Christ Hold Fast
@ChristHoldFast
Christ Hold Fast is a project of @1517. We are a Law/Gospel collective, dedicated to proclaiming the gospel of Jesus to all people.
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"Finding the balance between indifferentism and obsessiveness has never been easy, and it’s especially difficult in our environment." -David Clay
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"Sometimes I think we should be more tempted to laugh at the gospel than we are, not in derision but in sheer surprise and awe." -Wade Johnston
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"Vilification of the other is married to the justification of the self." -John Bombaro
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"The spirit indeed is willing and desires bodily death as a gentle sleep. It does not consider it to be death; it knows no such thing as death." -Martin Luther
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Please keep our dear friend, brother and 1517 staff member and his family in your prayers.
Chad Bird@birdchadlouis
Luke is my son, a baptized, beloved child of God. We grieve, we grieve deeply, but as those who place our hope in the One who is the Resurrection and the Life. Luke was everything a father would want in a son, and so much more. He was, and remains, a gift of God to us all.
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"With Christ as the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, the future is secure already. It’s solid right now, even when the cords seem to be fraying." -Ken Sundet Jones
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"History is the painful realization that we aren’t the ones who can save the world but, rather, we’re the ones who get saved." -Brad Gray
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"Moses is no Jesus but he, like us, is saved by Him. The law cannot enter the promised land, and yet the true and greater promised land is occupied by nothing but lawbreakers." -@danemeryprice
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"Through Martin Luther, God would unleash a far greater storm than the one which overwhelmed Luther on July 2, 1505." -Sam Schuldheisz
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"With every bone in our bodies, we declare war on grace. We declare war on the gift." -Luke Kjolhaug
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"Following Jesus, we gimp our way down the dark and slippery paths of life. As we do, we discover, ironically, that the longer we follow him, the weaker we become, and the more we lean on our Lord." -@birdchadlouis
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"Christian mercy should not seek its own. It must be round, and open its eyes and look at all alike, friend and foe, as our heavenly Father does." -Martin Luther
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"The undercurrent of Scripture is the sheer fact that Jehovah God is a God of his word." -Brad Gray
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“The world hates Jesus because he comes to lead us to love and forgive all, including our enemies.” -Donavon Riley
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“It’s God’s power that we are dealing with here that is made perfect in weakness, not ours. God’s power is made perfect in the weakness of the cross.” -Gerhard Forde
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“Because of Jesus, God always hears our prayers, and he always responds to them in love–regardless of the quality or quantity of the one speaking them.” -Luke Kjolhaug
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"Romans 7 affords us a vulnerable glimpse into the normative Christian experience. It describes in painful detail the life of sin and grace with which we’re all too familiar." -Brad Gray
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"We’ve been coached into thinking about baptism as something that we do to demonstrate our commitment to God." -@Flame314
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This week, we are grateful to publish a series of sermons from our beloved late Chaplain, Ron Hodel. This is the fifth installment of that series.
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