{"id":145,"date":"2026-02-11T17:15:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T17:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/church.immanuelroswell.org\/web\/?page_id=145"},"modified":"2026-02-11T20:47:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T20:47:52","slug":"teach","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/church.immanuelroswell.org\/web\/teach\/","title":{"rendered":"We Teach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-query is-layout-flow wp-block-query-is-layout-flow\"><ul class=\"columns-3 wp-block-post-template is-layout-grid wp-container-core-post-template-is-layout-6d3fbd8f wp-block-post-template-is-layout-grid\"><li class=\"wp-block-post post-142 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-teach\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:30px;padding-right:30px;padding-bottom:30px;padding-left:30px\"><h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/church.immanuelroswell.org\/web\/2026\/01\/28\/valentines-day-and-secret-marriages\/\" target=\"_self\" >Valentine&#8217;s Day and Secret Marriages<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">For the longest time I was told, and firmly believed, that Valentine\u2019s Day was merely a marketing stunt by Hallmark Inc. to sell cards and merchandise during the seasonal doldrums between New Year\u2019s and Mother\u2019s Day. And I get it. Consumerism forces companies to find new ways to expand their market by telling people they&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2026-01-28T17:13:26+00:00\">January 28, 2026<\/time><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-186 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-teach\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:30px;padding-right:30px;padding-bottom:30px;padding-left:30px\"><h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/church.immanuelroswell.org\/web\/2025\/05\/22\/why-are-lutherans-bad-at-good-works\/\" target=\"_self\" >Why Are Lutherans Bad at Good Works?<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">A couple of weeks ago, a group of pastors gathered at a regional conference were confronted with the oft repeated axiom that Lutherans are \u2018moral quietists.\u2019 They\u2019re not seen as engaging in the critical works that society needs. Perhaps they\u2019re not demonstrably making a difference in bringing the housing crisis to an end. They\u2019re not&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2025-05-22T20:55:30+00:00\">May 22, 2025<\/time><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-188 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-teach\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:30px;padding-right:30px;padding-bottom:30px;padding-left:30px\"><h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/church.immanuelroswell.org\/web\/2024\/10\/30\/a-letter-to-the-saints-and-friends-of-immanuel-lutheran-church-and-school\/\" target=\"_self\" >A Letter to the Saints and Friends of Immanuel Lutheran Church and School<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Dear Saints and Friends of Immanuel Lutheran Church and School, October 30, 2024 St. John the apostle asks, \u201cIf anyone has the world\u2019s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God\u2019s love abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word and talk, but in&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2024-10-30T20:56:03+00:00\">October 30, 2024<\/time><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-192 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-teach\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:30px;padding-right:30px;padding-bottom:30px;padding-left:30px\"><h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/church.immanuelroswell.org\/web\/2024\/03\/01\/so-you-dont-feel-like-going-to-church\/\" target=\"_self\" >So, You Don&#8217;t Feel Like Going to Church&#8230;<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Going to church is a chore, especially when better things are always presenting themselves to the imagination when you\u2019re sitting, yet again, through another sermon that is stretching dangerously beyond the fifteen-minute threshold of your attention span. At home there\u2019s Netflix. There\u2019s yardwork to be done. You can unplug and not be stressed by being&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2024-03-01T20:57:02+00:00\">March 1, 2024<\/time><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-190 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-teach\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:30px;padding-right:30px;padding-bottom:30px;padding-left:30px\"><h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/church.immanuelroswell.org\/web\/2024\/03\/01\/textual-notes-on-exodus-79-13\/\" target=\"_self\" >Textual Notes on Exodus 7:9-13<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Verse 9: Pharaoh demands a \u05de\u05d5\u05b9\u05e4\u05b5\u05ea \u201cwonder, sign, portent\u201d from Moses and Aaron, or as the Hebrew puts it more literally, \u201cset for yourself a sign.\u201d This demand for a sign is perhaps indicative of how the cults of the gods and their sorcerer priests justified their service to pharaoh and all of Egypt. It&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2024-03-01T20:56:35+00:00\">March 1, 2024<\/time><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-194 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-teach\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:30px;padding-right:30px;padding-bottom:30px;padding-left:30px\"><h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/church.immanuelroswell.org\/web\/2023\/12\/07\/watch-the-10-part-church-history-series\/\" target=\"_self\" >Watch the 10 Part Church History Series<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">If you\u2019re interested in the church\u2019s history, you might find these ten videos interesting. They provide a rough outline of the events, persons, and movements that have shaped the church which we see today. It also helps to disintguish between the church properly speaking, the congregation of the faithful, and the church as it is&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2023-12-07T20:57:59+00:00\">December 7, 2023<\/time><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-196 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-teach\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:30px;padding-right:30px;padding-bottom:30px;padding-left:30px\"><h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/church.immanuelroswell.org\/web\/2023\/12\/05\/how-does-the-old-testament-proclaim-christ\/\" target=\"_self\" >How Does the Old Testament Proclaim Christ?<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">How Does the Old Testament Proclaim Christ? Perhaps the most important part of Bible Study is the most neglected. We open up the Scriptures and expect profound, life-changing truths leap off the page, as if the Bible is greatest collection of life hacks ever. But the truth is that the Bible doesn\u2019t exist to improve&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2023-12-05T20:58:27+00:00\">December 5, 2023<\/time><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-198 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-teach\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:30px;padding-right:30px;padding-bottom:30px;padding-left:30px\"><h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/church.immanuelroswell.org\/web\/2023\/04\/21\/a-public-apology-for-thesis-xiii\/\" target=\"_self\" >A Public Apology for Thesis XIII<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">A thesis is just that, a thesis. It\u2019s a starting point of discussion and argument. It\u2019s not the definitive statement on a matter, though it might make an important step in that direction. I\u2019m not articulating the side of one group or another as much as I\u2019m trying to sort through my own position. If&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2023-04-21T20:58:55+00:00\">April 21, 2023<\/time><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-200 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-teach\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:30px;padding-right:30px;padding-bottom:30px;padding-left:30px\"><h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/church.immanuelroswell.org\/web\/2023\/04\/20\/theses-on-mankind\/\" target=\"_self\" >Theses on Mankind<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Theses on Mankind I. God created man in his own image, male and female he created them. (Gen. 1:27) II. The distinction between male and female is an order of creation through which God increases and blesses mankind. (Gen. 1:28; 2:24; Ex. 20:14; Matt. 19:6) III. Consequently, the honor due parents from their children is&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2023-04-20T20:59:17+00:00\">April 20, 2023<\/time><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-202 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-teach\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:30px;padding-right:30px;padding-bottom:30px;padding-left:30px\"><h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/church.immanuelroswell.org\/web\/2023\/02\/10\/reclaiming-reverence-in-worship\/\" target=\"_self\" >Reclaiming Reverence in Worship<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">\u201cFear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come, and worship him who made heaven and earth, the sea and the springs of water\u201d (Revelation 14:7). Too often we\u2019ve been told that God doesn\u2019t want respect in worship. We\u2019ve been told to treat him more like a drinking buddy in&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2023-02-10T20:59:42+00:00\">February 10, 2023<\/time><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-204 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-teach\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:30px;padding-right:30px;padding-bottom:30px;padding-left:30px\"><h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/church.immanuelroswell.org\/web\/2022\/09\/30\/materialism-demons-and-baptism\/\" target=\"_self\" >Materialism, Demons, and Baptism<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">The materialism of our world, which tries to explain everything in terms of energy and atoms, cringes away in horror when a Christian mentions his belief in spiritual beings like angels and demons. Why? Materialism&nbsp;was designed to exclude these creatures from mature and educated conversation. Materialism was engineered to slander all things immaterial and spiritual&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2022-09-30T21:00:48+00:00\">September 30, 2022<\/time><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-208 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-teach\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:30px;padding-right:30px;padding-bottom:30px;padding-left:30px\"><h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/church.immanuelroswell.org\/web\/2022\/07\/01\/action-and-use\/\" target=\"_self\" >Action and Use<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">A recent dispute among the churches of the Missouri Synod made me dive back into the wisdom of our Lutheran Fathers as articulated in the Formula of Concord, one of the confessional documents to which we have promised to adhere in this congregation and throughout the Synod. The dispute was over whether the Sacrament of&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2022-07-01T21:01:32+00:00\">July 1, 2022<\/time><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-206 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-teach\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:30px;padding-right:30px;padding-bottom:30px;padding-left:30px\"><h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/church.immanuelroswell.org\/web\/2022\/07\/01\/all-things-are-possible\/\" target=\"_self\" >All Things Are Possible?<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Read Genesis 11:1-9. The whole earth had one language and the same words. That means both husbands and wives knew what \u201cI\u2019m fine\u201d meant. Having one language and the same words, they understood. No one needed to be told what a word meant. Imagine that.&nbsp; Clarity of language is certainly God\u2019s will for us. The&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2022-07-01T21:01:07+00:00\">July 1, 2022<\/time><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-210 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-teach\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:30px;padding-right:30px;padding-bottom:30px;padding-left:30px\"><h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/church.immanuelroswell.org\/web\/2021\/12\/03\/new-life-for-a-worn-out-world\/\" target=\"_self\" >New Life for a Worn Out World<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Our bodies and minds, like the rest of the world around us, are wearing out. Like a garment, we\u2019re getting frayed at the edges and threadbare. Words and phrases don\u2019t come as quickly as they once did. Lugging the old Christmas decorations out of the closet puts a bit more strain on our back muscles&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2021-12-03T21:01:55+00:00\">December 3, 2021<\/time><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-212 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-teach\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:30px;padding-right:30px;padding-bottom:30px;padding-left:30px\"><h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/church.immanuelroswell.org\/web\/2021\/09\/17\/what-is-a-martyr\/\" target=\"_self\" >What Is a Martyr?<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">To be a martyr, in the eyes and understanding of the world, is to die for a cause,\u2019 though there is more to it than that. Soldiers go to war and sometimes die for a cause which they may agree with or not. When they fall, we seldom, if ever, call them martyrs. More often&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2021-09-17T21:02:18+00:00\">September 17, 2021<\/time><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-214 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-teach\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:30px;padding-right:30px;padding-bottom:30px;padding-left:30px\"><h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/church.immanuelroswell.org\/web\/2021\/07\/30\/common-and-not-so-common-sense-evangelism\/\" target=\"_self\" >Common [and not so common] Sense Evangelism<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">How do you get new people into church? In the late twentieth century the temptation was to look at the booming congregations in the suburbs, adopt their mission and vision statements, shell out money for one of their motivational speakers, and expect their success to become yours. The trouble, as many envious, small congregations discovered,&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2021-07-30T21:02:45+00:00\">July 30, 2021<\/time><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-216 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-teach\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:30px;padding-right:30px;padding-bottom:30px;padding-left:30px\"><h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/church.immanuelroswell.org\/web\/2021\/04\/30\/common-sense-stewardship\/\" target=\"_self\" >Common Sense Stewardship<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Stewardship can be confusing which is weird because I grew up hearing about stewardship all the time. The church\u2019s stewardship committee would organize Bible studies. They would hand out \u2018spiritual gift inventories\u2019 to give folks an idea of how much of their time, talent, and treasure they had available to give to the church. Spoiler&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2021-04-30T21:03:10+00:00\">April 30, 2021<\/time><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-220 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-teach\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:30px;padding-right:30px;padding-bottom:30px;padding-left:30px\"><h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/church.immanuelroswell.org\/web\/2021\/01\/20\/a-prayer-for-good-government\/\" target=\"_self\" >A Prayer for Good Government<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Not all governments are the same. Some governments are better at preserving justice and rewarding virtue. Corrupt governments reward vice and punish those who do good. Some governments preserve a greater share of liberty and freedom for its citizens. Other governments are jealous of power and become repressive and restrictive. Governments sometimes come to power&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2021-01-20T21:03:54+00:00\">January 20, 2021<\/time><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-218 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-teach\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:30px;padding-right:30px;padding-bottom:30px;padding-left:30px\"><h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/church.immanuelroswell.org\/web\/2021\/01\/15\/why-christians-must-gather-at-times-of-death\/\" target=\"_self\" >Why Christians Must Gather at Times of Death<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">I\u2019ve noticed a disturbing trend over the past year. The families of the departed have started to insist on no visitations, no funerals, and no memorials. Perhaps it has something to do with anxiety and fear surrounding the COVID virus. Perhaps it has something to do with the modesty of the generation that\u2019s burying the&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2021-01-15T21:03:32+00:00\">January 15, 2021<\/time><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-222 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-teach\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:30px;padding-right:30px;padding-bottom:30px;padding-left:30px\"><h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/church.immanuelroswell.org\/web\/2021\/01\/12\/an-epiphany-sermon\/\" target=\"_self\" >An Epiphany Sermon<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">e Word with them. In lands where only the incantations to dead images of wood and stone had been heard a new and living God\u2019s voice filled the gentile hearts. Yes, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob promised great works and salvation to his people, but he also promised to gather a people who&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2021-01-12T21:04:22+00:00\">January 12, 2021<\/time><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-243 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-teach\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:30px;padding-right:30px;padding-bottom:30px;padding-left:30px\"><h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/church.immanuelroswell.org\/web\/2020\/12\/02\/what-belongs-to-caesar-what-belongs-to-god\/\" target=\"_self\" >What Belongs to Caesar? What Belongs to God?<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">chosen authority and putting the whole community at risk through our risky behavior. When our human minds weigh the options, when our hearts weigh the moral hazards, we tend to think in terms of all or nothing. \u2018Pastor,\u2019 I\u2019ve been told, \u2018you\u2019ve told us the fourth commandment tells us to obey the worldly authorities so&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2020-12-02T22:16:14+00:00\">December 2, 2020<\/time><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-247 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-teach\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:30px;padding-right:30px;padding-bottom:30px;padding-left:30px\"><h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/church.immanuelroswell.org\/web\/2020\/10\/30\/how-to-use-and-understand-the-language-of-at-the-same-time-righteous-and-sinner\/\" target=\"_self\" >How to Use and Understand the Language of &#8220;At the Same Time Righteous and Sinner&#8221;<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">These striking words introduce a theological theme at direct odds with the emphasis on one\u2019s increasing perfection and holiness. Luther doesn\u2019t speak about partial righteousness nor partial sinfulness. Both complete realities exist at the same time. How is this possible? Can this paradox be reconciled with reason or the Bible? There\u2019s a clue in Luther\u2019s&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2020-10-30T22:16:51+00:00\">October 30, 2020<\/time><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-245 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-teach\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:30px;padding-right:30px;padding-bottom:30px;padding-left:30px\"><h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/church.immanuelroswell.org\/web\/2020\/10\/30\/luther-on-poverty-of-spirit\/\" target=\"_self\" >Luther on Poverty of Spirit<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">\u201cDavid was an outstanding king, and he really had his wallet and treasury full of money, his barns full of grain, his land full of all kinds of goods and provisions. In spite of all this he had to be a poor beggar spiritually, as he sings of himself (Ps. 39:12): \u201cI am poor, and&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2020-10-30T22:16:31+00:00\">October 30, 2020<\/time><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-249 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-teach\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:30px;padding-right:30px;padding-bottom:30px;padding-left:30px\"><h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/church.immanuelroswell.org\/web\/2020\/09\/29\/on-angels-and-grace-by-john-of-damascus\/\" target=\"_self\" >On Angels and Grace &#8211; By John of Damascus<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Angels are immaterial and unseen persons who are part of God\u2019s creation which we confess every week in the divine service &#8211; \u201cI believe in one God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth and of all things visible and invisible.\u201d When they appear in the course of our history, they terrify humans with&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2020-09-29T22:17:11+00:00\">September 29, 2020<\/time><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-251 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-teach\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:30px;padding-right:30px;padding-bottom:30px;padding-left:30px\"><h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/church.immanuelroswell.org\/web\/2020\/07\/26\/legal-axioms-what-every-antinomian-needs-to-hear\/\" target=\"_self\" >Legal Axioms &#8211; What Every Antinomian Needs to Hear<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">John Gerhard\u2019s On Interpreting Sacred Scripture is a master work of theological clarity and comfort that takes no shame in articulating every bit of Christian teaching from the Bible alone. One of the fruits of this endeavor are various theological axioms that Christians should keep in mind as they read and interpret the Bible. 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