The Necessity of Uncleanness

I had an opportunity to be a guest at an out of town church today. I get nervous when I have to go to an unfamiliar church. You just never know what you are walking into and the time when you could hazard a fairly accurate guess regarding a church’s beliefs and practices based on …

Gazing Wrongly at The Right Thing

More than once I have heard Lutherans distinguish themselves from Reformed Christians by saying that Calvinism is “God-centered” while Lutheranism is “Christ-centered”. For quite a long time I had no idea what that could possibly mean. Isn’t Jesus Christ God in the flesh? Would it not therefore be synonymous to say either “God-centered” or “Christ-centered”? …