Northwoods Table Talk

  Pastor Jerabek is taking a few days off, and is not writing on his blog, specifically not doing any devotion today

 Pastor Jerabek is taking a few days off, and is not writing on his blog, specifically not doing any devotion today.

  Pastor Jerabek is taking a few days off, and is not writing on his blog, specifically not doing any devotion today

  Pastor Jerabek is taking a few days off, and is not writing on his blog, specifically not doing any devotion today

T uesday after T rinity XVII - Devotion in semi-Exile Deuteronomy 5:22-6:9          Matthew 9:1-17 Again, I could talk about this next article at length. I will simply answer this question, “Who are the Anabaptists?” Some claim that anabaptists (from re-baptism) simply believe that infant baptism is wrong, so all those baptized as children needed to be (re)baptized. There were, as you will see, many other things that the anabaptists believed and taught that are erroneous as well as believe that children are innocent (hmmm, born sinners, yet innocent? Psalm 51:5) and must make their own decision for Jesus.   I will let you read for yourself their teachings which were (and still are) in error. They may not be called ‘Anabaptists’ today, but you will recognize their adherents where their erroneous teachings are to be found.   Erroneous Articles of the Anabaptists. 2]  The Anabaptists are divided among themselves into many factions, as one contends fo...

Monday after T rinity XVII - Devotion in semi-Exile Deuteronomy 5:1-21          Matthew 8:18-34 Again, I could talk about this next article, but again I am going to refrain from any sort of introduction except to say that the teaching of the article is one that many often find confusing.   XI. Election. 1]  Concerning this article no public dissension has occurred among the theologians of the Augsburg Confession. But since it is a consolatory article, if treated properly, and lest offensive disputations concerning the same be instituted in the future, it is also explained in this writing. Affirmative Theses. The Pure and True Doctrine concerning This Article. 2]  1. To begin with [First of all], the distinction between praescientia et praedestinatio, that is, between God's foreknowledge and His eternal election, ought to be accurately observed. 3]  2. For the foreknowledge of God is nothing else than that God knows all things before they happ...