For Luther, the authority to forgive did not come from the office of the minister; rather, it came from the authority of the Word alone….the gospel of Jesus Christ is primarily about the mercy of God that is manifested by the forgiveness of sins (John 20:23) and reconciliation with God (Romans 5:11; 2 Corinthians 5:18; cf. Genesis 3). TJC Pastor, Raymond Johnson, r...

Matthew parallels the resurrection pericopes in Matthew 27:51-54 and 28:1-10 to accentuate the Christological, missiological, and eschatological implications of Jesus’ life-giving cross-death and death-defying vindication from the grave. TJC Pastor, Raymond Johnson, wrote an article for The Southern Baptist Journal of Theology on the resurrection of the dead at the ...