Volume 18, Number 6. In this edition, Pastor Tom Westra provides a checklist for writing a sermon and writes about how Paul teaches us justification and sanctification. A Sermon Checklist A checklist of important characteristics ...
Volume 18, Number 5. Pastor Tom Westra highlights the importance of Christ's active obedience and how that shapes the rest of the elements of the sermon. A Clean Set of Clothes In place of our ...
Readers of The Shepherd’s Study are familiar with the circumstances surrounding Paul’s letter to the Galatians, but it is always edifying to review. Certain missionaries were trying to persuade Paul’s Gentile converts in Galatia to ...
In this terse book, Stott addresses what he calls in the opening chapter a “tragedy” in “evangelical Christians” – “polarization” (7). This is the tendency toward one pole or the other in any issue. Whether ...
Give Them Grace: Dazzling Your Kids with the Love of Jesus, by Elyse M. Fitzpatrick & Jessica Thompson. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2011. 213 pages. Elyse M. Fitzpatrick holds an M.A. in Biblical Counseling. She is ...
Lutheran Spirituality: Life as God’s Child, Robert C. Baker, ed. St. Louis: Concordia, 2010. 301 pages. The general editor for this book is Rev. Robert C. Baker, Senior Editor of Adult Bible Studies, Concordia Publishing ...
Friends of the Law: Luther’s Use of the Law for the Christian Life, by Edward A. Engelbrecht, St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 2011. xvii + 310 pages. Edward Engelbrecht “serves as the senior editor for ...
Volume 15, Number 3 Key Issue #8: Preaching Sanctification Flowing From and Empowered by the Gospel Recognizing what makes Lutherans unique in a Christ-centered approach to preaching sanctification. Read More As a companion to the ...
Volume 1, Number 4 Read More The Gospel of Sanctification This business of being a Christian affects two areas – justification and sanctification. Time and again, I not only see the gospel twisted into a ...
