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Luther and the Stories of God: Biblical Narratives as a Foundation for Christian Living is unavailable, but you can change that!

Martin Luther read and preached the biblical text as the record of God addressing real, flesh-and-blood people in their daily lives. He used stories of the faithful as depicted in biblical narratives to drive home his vision of the Christian life, a life that includes struggling against temptation, enduring suffering, praising God in worship and prayer, and serving one’s neighbor in response to...

Some stand in wonder before him. They are the pious, true Christians, who take him so seriously that they are just beside themselves. Others blaspheme, as did the Pharisees and learned of his day, who were annoyed that they were not able to do as much as he and were worried that he would be more highly respected by the people than they. Still others tested him, wanting signs. He was supposed to perform them, as they thought he should. They are just making a game of what he was doing, just as Herod
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