QUOTABLES: Luther on Becoming

“This life…is not godliness but the process of becoming godly, not health but getting well, not being but becoming….We are not yet what we shall be, but we are on the way….This is not the goal but it is the right road….all does not gleam and sparkle, but everything is being cleansed.” -MARTIN LUTHER

My Annual Halloween Rant

The cute little ghosts and goblins, witches and vampires knocking on your darkened door with disappointment that you’re not home are NOT the evil we should be placing in the crosshairs of our spiritual warfare offensives.  Doesn’t the Bible itself warn us that “Satan disguises himself as an angel of light”?  So, why do some Christians get so bent out of shape over these cute children disguised as angels of darkness? … More My Annual Halloween Rant

On Wrestling with Books: Luther’s Tower Experience

Have you ever argued with an author, or wrestled with a book? Has an idea ever so overwhelmed you that you gasped audibly and threw the book down in either disgust or delight? Have you ever returned to a section,  re-reading a sentence over and over hoping to find some other way to interpret it? … More On Wrestling with Books: Luther’s Tower Experience