blind faith, God's grace
nothing left to impart a baptism sermon on what happens to demons in baptism : L, T, and V— and , by extension, Mom and Dad—and so also , all the rest of us, too, your sisters and brothers in Christ — we have all just witnessed a miracle ! And you , V, T, and L, you are the direct beneficiaries of this incredible work of the Lord ! BUT I know . It doesn’t LOOK like anything incredible has happened. Does it? Thus begins your formal theological training. You don’t have to go to seminary to become a theologian . As Luther said, life will make a theologian out of you. And, T, L, and V, your training begins now with the plain observation that God’s works aren’t often all that clear . Martin Luther called this the deus absconditus . The hidden God. The God who absconds Thyself. And for Luther, this was a central tenant of theology AND life . Luther, you understand, couldn’t bring himself to accept the easy answers. And this drove him deep into Scripture. And ther...