Expressive individualism is a term used today to describe the intuitive way that we think about ourselves as human beings.

Dr. Carl Truman talking about his presentation at the 2025 issues, etc., making the case conference.

We think about ourselves as free, autonomous, self-determining, and we place a great emphasis upon our feelings as being decisive for who we are.

Now, from a Christian perspective, feelings are part of what it is to be human, but also we understand as Christians that made in the image of God, we are dependent creatures.

We're obliged creatures. We don't self-invent or self-create ourselves.

And what I want to do in this talk is analyze the problem and then suggest ways that the church can

combat this within our congregations.

You can meet and hear Dr. Carl Truman making the case against expressive individualism at this year's Making

the Case Conference, July 18th and 19th, at Concordia University Chicago.

Learn more at Issuezc.org.

The following is an encore presentation of Issues, etc.

James Madison famously says, if men were angels, they wouldn't need government.

And, of course, the inference behind those, men aren't angels, that men actually are very far from angels.

And so they need to be governed for that very reason.

Sometimes up to 25% or even more of the, particularly like in the New England Journal of Medicine,

of the space for these magazines is taken up with this kind of ideological advocacy.

Sometimes I think these editors are more interested in politics than they are in science.

So when God says he loves us, he's not saying that he has warm fuzzies for us. He's saying that He has taken action for us to save us in Jesus.

Love is not what God feels, it's what God does.

What is the manifestation of the reality of God?

The sacraments, the pure preaching the gospel, ensure that God is the one who is making

himself manifest and we're looking outward to where he is giving himself and how he is giving

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