Month: December 2016

What do you mean “Gospel”?

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The word “Gospel” is the English translation of the Greek word “eu-angelion”. “Eu-angelion” means “good news”. The New Testament book of Mark opens with the words “The beginning of the good news about Jesus the Messiah”. It is that kind of good news that Lutherans are talking about when they talk about this word “Gospel”. Read more about What do you mean “Gospel”?[…]

Lutherans: Denomination, Tradition, or Movement

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What are Lutherans, anyway? Are they a denomination of Christianity? Are they a tradition? Are they a movement? All of those ways of talking about Lutherans would probably be correct in one way or another, but we think that the best way to think about Lutherans is to think of them as a movement within Read more about Lutherans: Denomination, Tradition, or Movement[…]