The Kingdom of God is a tricky concept, and I was always taught it referred to our heavenly reward for being good, which, now that I actually read the Bible for myself, makes very little sense. Others say that the Kingdom of God is another way of talking about the church, and still others say that it's the dream God has for the wholeness of the world, a dream being made true little by little among us right here, right now. My answer? All of the above.

~ Nadia Bolz-Weber

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Every time we draw a line between us and others, Jesus is always on the other side of it.

~ Nadia Bolz-Weber

Nadia Bolz-Weber Christianity Lutheran

Church isn’t perfect. It’s practice.

~ Nadia Bolz-Weber

Nadia Bolz-Weber Christianity Lutheran

What makes us saints of God is not our ability to be saintly but rather God’s ability to work through sinners.

~ Nadia Bolz-Weber

Nadia Bolz-Weber Christianity Lutheran

I am much afraid that the universities will prove to be the great gates of hell, unless they diligently labour in explaining the Holy Scriptures, and engraving them in the hearts of youth. I advise no one to place his child where the Scriptures do not reign paramount. Every institution in which men are not unceasingly occupied with the Word of God must become corrupt.

~ Martin Luther

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I show how much of the wars of religion involved Catholics killing Catholics, Lutherans killing Lutherans, and Catholic-Protestant collaboration. (Page 10 The Myth of Religious Violence)

~ William Cavanaugh

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The Gospel does not say, you must do good works. Rather, it fashions us into human beings, into creatures who cannot help serve God and fellow human beings. Without a doubt, a precious effect!

~ C.f.w. Walther

C.f.w. Walther Devotional Gospel Law Lutheran Reformed

Galatians 3:11-12...a precious text! A person becomes righteous in the sight of God by faith alone. What conclusion can we draw from this? The law cannot make any person righteous because it has nothing to say about justifying and saving faith. That information is found only in the Gospel. In other words, the law has nothing to say about grace..

~ C.f.w. Walther

C.f.w. Walther Gospel Law Lutheran Preaching

We see that the law was not reveal to us to put a notion into our heads that we could become righteous by it, but to teach us that we are completely unable to fulfill the law. Then we will know what a sweet message-what a glorious doctrine-the gospel is and move receive it with exuberant joy.

~ C.f.w. Walther

C.f.w. Walther Gospel Law Lutheran Preaching