The Marburg Colloquy

Trevin Wax gives a Reformed perspective on the Marburg Colloquy, a significant moment in the Reformation when Luther and Zwingli debated the Lord’s Supper.

A Key To Understanding Baptism

Possibly one of the most important distinctions between paedobaptists (one who practices infant baptism) and credobaptist (one who practices believers baptism) is how they answer the question, “Is baptism something that we do, or is baptism something that God does?  Or stated another way, is baptism our (human) action or God’s action?  Who is the [...]

Luther’s Defense of the Means of Grace

Critics of the Lutheran theology allege that our understanding of the means of grace compromises the doctrine of salvation by grace through faith alone.  Martin Luther responded to that charge himself with these words from his Large Catechism (paragraphs 28-31):  

“Our know-it-alls, the new spirits, assert that faith alone saves and that works and external things [...]

Receiving the Forgiveness of Sin

Here Martin Luther defends his understanding of how God offers, gives, seals and conveys the forgiveness of sins to His people through means, that is, through His Word which comes to us accompanied with visible elements in the sacraments.   

This quote is from Against the Heavenly Prophets: 
So that our readers may the better perceive our [...]