So this source of joy that Jesus gives us, the source of that joy is not simply that there

is a Son of God who has, for some reason, come into the flesh.

Pastor Hans Feeney of Lutheran satire speaking at this year's issues, et cetera, making the

case conference.

The great source of joy, the source of joy for the Christian, is that the Son of God

came into the flesh for you.

That this very universe was created for you and that when you were lost in its fallenness,

Jesus Christ came into this world, gave up his life upon the cross,

and rose from the grave.

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Thank you, As we listen to that beautiful rendition of a mighty fortress is our God,

let's think a little about Martin Luther this afternoon.

Luther wrote an important set of theses for an academic disputation in the fall of 1517.

And in a way, these propositions for discussion and debate were really a culmination of work he'd been doing for quite a while, all 97 of those theses.

What's that you say?

You thought Luther had 95 theses?

Well, he did on the subject of indulgences.

But what I'm talking about here is his set of theses against scholastic theology,

not from October of 1517 but rather the previous

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