MN Author Event: Luke Kjolhaug

Join us for a LOCAL MN Author event with Luke Kjolhaug on May 30th at 6:00pm.

About the Author: Luke Kjolhaug is the pastor of Elim Lutheran Church in rural Osakis, Minnesota. He holds an undergraduate degree from Wheaton College and a master’s degree from Lutheran Brethren Seminary. Luke blogs for 1517 and contributes regularly to the Lutheran Brethren periodical Faith & Fellowship. You can also find him impersonating a theologian on the socials @foxholetheology. He and his wife Bethannie have been blessed with two daughters.

Book Summary: An alcoholic falls off the wagon again after promising his family he’d finally kicked the habit. An upstanding citizen and churchgoing family man breaks down and confesses an affair to a friend. A lifelong Christian secretly wrestles with anger issues, unable to control the rage bubbling up from within. The ongoing presence of sin in the life of believers is a troubling problem, and the honest truth is pretty universal: We’re not as good as we would like to be. What are we to make of this? What hope is there for full-fledged sinner-saints who find themselves redeemed yet still susceptible to sin’s sway? God’s answer is clear: We are not our failures. We are not our past mistakes. At the Cross, God gave the skeletons in our closet a final burial. Through faith we are forgiven, free, and loved beyond reason by the God who wrestles our old Adam to the ground, puts him in a death grip, and raises us to new life as saints. Welcome to the world of the simul.

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• Next month, 6th June, 06:00 pm, MN Author Event: Kent Nerburn in Alexandria

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