Michael Horton, Justin Holcomb, Bob Hiller, and Walter Strickland discuss pastoral and real life implications for the five solas of the Reformation.
The Five Solas: A Pastoral Deep Dive
1 hr 29 min
In this Episode
- Why Sola Scriptura means Scripture is the final, not the only, authority, and how creeds and councils carry real but subordinate weight.
- How faith alone rests our assurance on the strength of Christ rather than the strength of our believing.
- Grace as God’s unmerited favor in Christ, received by people who were dead in sin, and the patience it gives in pastoral care.
- Why Christ alone depends on who Christ is, fully God and fully man, as confessed at Chalcedon.
- How Soli Deo loria turns doctrine into doxology and gives worth to ordinary work and imperfect preaching.
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