Welcome to Douglas Wilson's The Plotcast.

Before we get started, I wanted to highlight the bondage of the will by Martin Luther,

a book that we're now selling as part of the Christian Heritage Series, Luther

replies to the arguments of Erasmus of Rotterdam. Erasmus was the most distinguished

scholar of Luther's day,

but that only made Luther all the more eager to defend the truth.

Erasmus argued that all the commands in scripture clearly showed

that man had the ability to obey God through his own power.

In this work, Luther replies that such an argument emptied the gospel of its power and that instead

man's will is bound captive to sin, and that

only through the gospel are we freed from its power.

While this rambunctious and pungy book is entertaining,

Luther never loses sight of the heart of the matter, man's inability to earn his

salvation and his absolute need for grace and forgiveness.

This book is part of the Christian Heritage series where for the next four months

or so we'll be dropping one brand new book in the series a month, which means February's will drop at any moment.

So be on the lookout for that, a really big author

and someone we're excited about.

And without further ado, the

the Plodcast. Yes God.

God don't never change.

Welcome to the Plodcast. This is episode 131, 131. Hard to believe that I've done this 131 times, but I have.

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