This Bible study is an overview of Augburg Confession, articles eighteen through part of article twenty. Quiz #8 (grey sheet): Quiz-8-for-Nov-3-Augsburg-Confession-Art-6-17.pdf Handout 1: Handout-Articles-of-the-Augsburg-Confession-Overview-Nov-3.pdf Overhead: AC-articles-18-21.pdf https://media.blubrry.com/trinityhmedia/p/content.blubrry.com/trinityhmedia/Book_of_Concord_Class_8_Nov_3_2019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | RSS
This Bible study is an overview of Augburg Confession, articles six through seventeen. Quiz #7 (blue sheet): Quiz-7-for-Oct-27-Augsburg-Confession.pdf Handout 1 (from October 13): Handout-Articles-of-the-Augsburg-Confession-Overview.pdf https://media.blubrry.com/trinityhmedia/p/content.blubrry.com/trinityhmedia/Book_of_Concord_Class_7_Oct_27_2019.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | RSS
The Augsburg Confession is divided into “Articles of Faith and Doctrine” and “Articles Concerning Dissension, and Corrected Abuses.” In order to better understand the two-fold structure of the Augsburg Confession, this study began with a quick review of the historical events from 1517 to 1530 (page 3 of last week’s handout). Due to the conciliatory […]
“The Word of God alone should be and remain the only standard and rule of doctrine” (FC SD Rule and Norm 9). Concerning the church fathers and church councils, we accept them in so far as they agree with the Word of God, “to which everything should be subjected” (9). However, the church does need […]
The Lutheran theologians explain, in the preface to the entire Book of Concord, that they never intended teach anything new, but only hold “to the ancient consensus which the universal and orthodox church of Christ has believed, fought for against many heresies and errors, and repeatedly affirmed” (Preface, 3). First, “We believe, teach, and confess […]
Simply put, this Bible class examines the Scriptures to see the newly-formed Christian church engage in creed-like statements of faith. There are both professions of who Jesus is and His work on our behalf. We the profession of faith used with baptism, the pledging of men into the Pastoral Office, and the rejection of heresy. […]
This Bible class presented an overview of the historic and ecumenical creeds of the Christian church. The Apostles’ Creed is the oldest of the creeds. Although it is first quoted at the end of the fourth century (390 and then 404), it has its roots in the old Roman Creed of the second century. The […]
This Bible class is the beginning of a 9-month course on the Book of Concord, the confessions of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. A creed is a summary statement of the religious belief of a certain group of people. We begin this course by responding to five common reasons which groups give for being non-creedal (or […]
In the beginning there was a distinction between the Creator and His Creation. Yet at a point in time “the Word became flesh and dwelt among us” (Jn 1:14). The divine second person of the Trinity took up a human nature and manifested Himself to our human senses. This God-Man appointed Apostles to be His […]
“Of all the religious beliefs in the world, past or present, none have more thoroughly based themselves on history than Judaism and Christianity. the divine-human encounter in the biblical faith always involves claims about real people, living in real places, who acted in real events in the past, many of which are also cited in […]