Was the Reformer Martin Luther innovating or an error when he added the word alone to Romans 328

for we hold that one is justified by faith alone apart from works of the law?

Find out in Pastor Will Whedon's column in the latest issues etc. journal.

In the Wittenburg Trail feature, Dr. Donna Harrison details her journey to confessional

Lutheranism from Catholicism, Scientism, Mysticism, and Evangelicalism.

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Anyone who spends any time around little children knows that children are full of questions.

They're curious about the world around them. They're curious about the Christian faith.

They're even curious about things that for them may likely be many decades in the future like

what happens when they die and what happens at the end of the world and will they know

their family when they get to heaven. Welcome back to issues etc. We're beginning a new series.

Kids have questions today the afterlife. Pastor Jonathan Connor joins us. He's pastor of Zion

Luther Church in Manning, Iowa. Jonathan, welcome back. Hey, thanks for having me. We are working

today from a list of questions that you sent us. How did you compile this list?

Yeah, great questions. So for the last four or five years I started something a little bit new

in my confirmation class. It's a simple concept but at the end of each confirmation class,

the kids all have a learning journal. It's just a notebook and I ask them to write down either

one thing they learned or one question they have. And then I collect those and I spend the next day

responding to their questions. And so for the first year I was writing out all their answers

by hand and my hand just couldn't keep up. I got 20 kids to write answers to. So I started typing

them on the computer and then cutting them out and pasting them in their notebook for them.

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