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A Day in the Life of a Pastor – Ryan Kolander
What do bilingual pastors do when they are not in the pulpit? What all pastors do when they are not in the pulpit: teach and counsel, study and prepare, reach out and reach in. The main difference is that they do it in two languages! Being bilingual has afforded me opportunities to reach out to…
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Luther Takes His Stand because of the Gospel, Part Two
Luther refused to recant because he believed it was neither safe nor right to go against conscience. If we think of conscience the way many understand it today, we will miss the point. Luther was not a twenty-first century citizen of the United States demanding the freedom to believe whatever he felt was right. He…
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Luther Takes His Stand because of the Gospel, Part One
At that point, von der Ecken, in the name of the emperor, demanded that Martin provide an unambiguous (without horns or teeth) response to the question of recanting what he had written. In response Luther spoke the famous words: Since then your serene majesty and your lordships seek a simple answer, I will give it…
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A Day in the Life of a Pastor – Aaron Bublitz
Contrary to the oldest pastor joke in the book, you are probably aware that a pastor works a little more than one hour a week. He has many demands on his time and various responsibilities to tend to all week long that pull him in all sorts of directions. And because of that, it can…
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The Second Appearance
Luther was to appear at 4:00pm on April 18, again at the bishop’s residence, but it ended up beginning at 6:00pm and in a larger hall, before even more dignitaries. Luther’s “tremor” at his first appearance provided this unique opportunity: He got to address the diet in plenary session.[1] By all appearances, Luther was a…
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The Initial Appearance, Part Two
Luther’s conduct on April 17 seemed strange, both to those who attended the diet and to those who reflect on it five hundred years later. Why didn’t Luther give an immediate answer to the question about his willingness to recant his writings? After all, Luther had to have expected the question was coming. At the…
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