Full of Joy Podcast - Lutheran Stories: How We Read the Bible

May 25, 2026

Pastor Eric Ohrtman

Today’s podcast should help offer some incite into how Lutherans read the Bible. In a nutshell…we read it through a lens of faith and grace. Pastor Eric Ohrtman breaks it down into three things we do when reading scripture: 1) We use the Bible to understand it, 2) We put things into context, 3) We read with our eyes on Jesus. He talks through the competing paradoxes of saint and sinner, law and gospel, fear and hope and love. And the importance of reading and hearing it collectively as a church, and how the lectionary is designed to help us do this together.