Following the Formula

Episodes

• Following the Formula, Article VI: The Third Use of God’s Law — LW Searching Scripture, June 2026 2026-06-01
  God’s Word plainly teaches, “The law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good” (Romans 7:12). And so, we do not discard the Law,…
• Following the Formula, Article V: Law and Gospel — LW Searching Scripture, May 2026 2026-05-04
  Luther famously said that students of the Bible need “to retain the distinction between Law and Gospel” (AE 26: 406). This became the official…
• Following the Formula, Article IV: Good Works — LW Searching Scripture, April 2026 2026-04-06
  Article IV of the Formula of Concord elaborates on teachings introduced in the previous article: “Good works always follow justifying faith and are…
• Following the Formula, Article III: The Righteousness of Faith Before God — LW Searching Scripture, March 2026 2026-03-03
  Article III of the Formula of Concord addresses doctrinal errors spread by two 16th-century teachers, Andreas Osiander (1498–1552) and Francesco…
• Following the Formula, Article II: Free Will — LW Searching Scripture, February 2026 2026-02-05
  “Free will” is not a phrase found in the Bible. The concept seems to have been brought into Christian theology by the church father Tertullian…
• Following the Formula, Article I: Original Sin — LW Searching Scripture, January 2026 2026-01-08
  Readers of The Lutheran Witness are likely familiar with the Formula of Concord (FC) — not only from its inclusion in the Lutheran Book of Concord,…