Quote of the Week
“We are told that Christ was killed for us, that His death has washed out our sins, and that by dying He has disabled death itself. That is the formula. That is Christianity. That is what has to be believed. ”
Past Quotes of the Week
February 2020
“The conscience, our own anxiety, and all slaves of law bid us go the way of obedience to the very end in order to find peace with God. But the way of obedience has no end. It lies endlessly before you, bringing continually severer demands and constantly growing indebtedness… But now Christ is the end of the law; the road ends at his feet, and here his righteousness is offered to everyone who believes. It is to that place, to Jesus only, that God has wanted to drive you with all your unrest and anguish of soul.
Bo Giertz: “The Hammer of God”
January 2020
“We see that the law was not revealed to us to put that notion into our heads that we could become righteous by it, but to teach us that we are utterly unable to fulfill the law. When we have learned this, we shall know what a sweet message-what a glorious doctrine-the gospel is and shall receive it with exuberant joy.”
C.F.W. Walther: “Law & Gospel: How to Read and Apply the Bible: A Reader’s Edition”