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[ddownload id=”8053″ style=”link” text=”PDF VERSION”] The Augsburg Confession Article 13 by Nathanael Mayhew The Sacraments What is a sacrament? How many sacraments are there? When we study these questions, we must realize that the term “sacrament” is a man-made term. The word “sacrament” comes from the Latin sacramentum which means oath or rite. The number of rites recognized as sacraments depends
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Volume 13, Issue 15 [ddownload id=”7783″ style=”link” text=”Click here to download pdf”] Augsburg Confession: New Obedience By Pastor Nathanael Mayhew The title for this article is “New Obedience”. While that term does not occur in our article, it is a good summary of what is being presented here. Note: Many of the titles we have for
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Volume 13, Issue 14 [ddownload id=”7753″ style=”link” text=”Click here to download pdf”] Augsburg Confession: Third Article, The Means of Grace By Pastor Nathanael Mayhew The Means of Grace True Lutherans are unique on their understanding of the Means of Grace. No other branch of Christianity attributes to the Gospel the efficacy and power which Luther
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Volume 13, Issue 13 [ddownload id=”7749″ style=”link” text=”Click here to download pdf”] The Augsburg Confession: Justification By Pastor Nathanael Mayhew The Chief Article This article on justification is the chief article in the entire confession. To the average reader it may not seem like this article is of great importance especially when one considers the
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Volume 13, Issue 12 [ddownload id=”7731″ style=”link” text=”Click here to download pdf”] The Augsburg Confession: Third Article By Pastor Nathanael Mayhew In Article 3 the reformers begin to set the foundation for what would be the pivotal articles in the Augsburg Confession. This article discusses the person and the work of Jesus, the Christ. A
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Volume 13, Issue 11 [ddownload id=”7722″ style=”link” text=”click here to download pdf”] The Augsburg Confession: Article Two, Of Original Sin By Pastor Nathanael Mayhew Article 2 of the Augsburg Confession deals with the fundamental problem faced by the human race – sin. The existence of sin cannot be denied by any reasonable person since it is
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Volume 13, Issue 10 [ddownload id=”7721″ style=”link” text=”click here to download pdf”] The Augsburg Confession: Article One, Of God By Pastor Nathanael Mayhew The first article of the Augsburg Confession defines the person and nature of God. Every civilization in the world has a belief in “god” in one form or another. These “gods” are not
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Volume 13, Issue 8 [ddownload id=”7707″ style=”link” text=”click here to download pdf file”] The Augsburg Confession By Pastor Nathanael Mayhew A copy of the Augsburg Confession can be found at https://clclutheran.org/atlanta/bibleclass/bookofconcord/augsburgconfessiondocument.html The Augsburg Confession is probably the most familiar and most widely used of all the particular confessions of the Lutheran Church. It can
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