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Justification Is for Preaching: Essays by Oswald Bayer, Gerhard O. Forde, and Others is unavailable, but you can change that!

Although preachers often question their effectiveness, no task of the church is more important than proclamation. Only the gospel liberates sinners from guilt, despair, and death and grants them freedom, hope, and new life. Few have grasped this truth better than Martin Luther. This volume features contributions by contemporary theologians whose work is shaped by Luther's conviction that God's...

It depends on whether someone has the courage to announce to us, “You have died and your life is hid with Christ in God!” “Awake you who sleep, and arise from the dead!” It could be that we will be only continuously existing subjects doomed to our own choices. Is the law eternal? It could be and will be if Christ is not preached so as to end it for us. We tremble on the brink of freedom. Is this all, this old age, this confusing mixture of regnum mundi and regnum diaboli? It could be. That is the