About The Hodgkins Lutheran

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Why write a religious blog?

To be perfectly honest, I probably shouldn't. I don't have any special theological credentials. In fact, I don't have any theological credentials. I'm a confirmed layman of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod, who has a desire to study, discuss, and proclaim Christ's Gospel. That's all.

That being said, it would probably be good for anyone who wants to read what I write to know what I think about stuff, and junk. You should go over to the old The Hodgkins Lutheran blog and read my Personal Confession of Faith (there's a link at the top of the page). 

I called it The Hodgkins Lutheran as an homage to CFW Walther, who had an influential newspaper called Der Lutheraner (The Lutheran). 

The TL;DR is that I believe that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Peter, and then to the Twelve. 

I believe that if Christ has not been raised, our faith is futile and we are still in our sins. 

I believe that Jesus was an actual person; That he is God who created the universe, in human flesh. 

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church.

I believe that Baptism saves you, not by removing dirt from the body, but by the pledge of a good conscience toward God, by the resurrection of Jesus. 

I believe that Jesus is the bread of life; that he gives us his real body and his real blood to eat and to drink in the Lord's Supper, and unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. 

I believe that Jesus will come to be our judge. 

And, a bunch of other stuff that comes from the Bible, distilled into something called the Book of Concord of 1580. 

Enjoy. Or, don't. Whatever, it's a free country.

THL