Jin O Jeong Articles

  • Thanksgiving: The Differences in Eastern and Western Cultures

    Before Thanksgiving Day, I pondered the difference between Eastern and Western cultures in term of how they view and display respect. For this, I was given the example of two great philosophers who led the flow of ideas in the East and West: One of them is Plato, a western ancient philosopher and ...

  • How did Martin Luther and John Calvin Understand Justification and Sanctification?

    Last week on the Reformation Day, I received some questions about how Luther and the Reformed Church, including John Calvin, understood the concept of justification and sanctification. This article will help Christians easily understand the theological differences of Luther and Calvin.

  • 500th Reformation Anniversary: A Pastor's Exhortation to Listen to Martin Luther, III

    In the earlier thesis, Luther asserts that only when all humans fear the judgment of God, they can avoid pride and have true hope. In this thesis, Luther emphasized that, “In the sight of God sins are then truly venial when they are feared by men to be mortal.” While thesis 11, pertains to concern ...

  • Should the Korean Church "Indigenize" the Lutheran Liturgy, or Conserve It?

    Reverend Jin O. Jeong discusses the historical context of the Lutheran liturgy, and the different arguments for which some may want to change the liturgy according to the culture, or conserve it in its original form.

  • 500th Reformation Anniversary: A Pastor's Exhortation to Listen to Martin Luther, II

    As we can see in earlier thesis, the scholastic tradition in Middle age, tried to make the distinction between ‘dead works’ and ‘deadly works’ to avoid the argument of the good woks done by, “benevolent pagans.” Luther asserted that this distinction can be incomprehensible to ordinary Christians. ...

  • The Issue of Homosexuality and the Church: Misconceptions and Truth

    On June 26, 2015, the United States became the twenty-first, and most populous country to legalize same-sex marriage, as result of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Obergefell v. Hodges. Now, the issue of homosexuality has become a war without guns in the US. Furthermore, considering America’s ...

  • Father’s Day: Luther as Son and Father

    In Korea, we celebrate Parents Day on May 8th every year, but Americans celebrate Mother’s Day and Father’s Day separately. Generally, in the United States, Father's Day is celebrated on the third Sunday of every June. The first Father's Day celebration was held in Spokane, Washington, by Sonora ...

  • The Way of the Cross X: Heidelberg Disputation, Thesis X

    In earlier thesis, Luther rebutted the scholastic tradition that good works done by an unbeliever (without Christ) are said to be dead in the sense that (being without grace) they are not meritorious, but still they were not such as to be mortal, that is, deserving of eternal condemnation. For ...

  • The Way of the Cross IX: Heidelberg Disputation, Thesis IX

    As we have shown before, Theses 7 and 8 have insisted that works done without fear of God by either the righteous or unrighteous are mortal sins, but theologians of glory are always looking for loopholes and arguing the leg off an iron pot. They raise the following questions; What is one to say of ...

  • Sermon: The Food and Drink that Satisfies Eternally

    Grace to you and peace, from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. A Japanese writer, trying to write a critical analysis on the history of world culture, came to an interesting conclusion. He says that if we are to compare world culture, civilization and reality to what ...
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