Christmas in Genesis: Martin Luther on Jacob’s Ladder
Here is a glorious passage from Luther’s Genesis commentary explaining Jacob’s Ladder. Here’s a video of me teaching this passage in the World...
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Prayer for the New Year
Here’s the prayer for the New Year from the Lutheran Liturgy (mentioned in this Sunday Drive Home).
Martin Luther on “Body, Soul, Spirit”
… or the person is like the Tabernacle Here’s a very helpful excerpt from Martin Luther’s commentary on Luke 1:46 (Mary’s Magnificat), e...
T. S. Eliot on the Deathwork of Science and the Lifework of the Church (or better: The Faith)
Plotting of happiness and flinging empty bottles, Turning from your vacancy to fevered enthusiasm
C. S. Lewis on Nostalgia
from the Weight of Glory: In speaking of this desire for our own faroff country, which we find in ourselves even now, I feel a certain shyness. I am almost...
Cyprian’s Sermon to Christians in a Plague
HT Carl Roth for sending me this sermon. In the year of our Lord 252, Cyprian wrote this sermon to encourage the Christians facing a plague. Some were afraid to...
The Psalter and the Lord’s Prayer
“It would not be difficult to arrange all of [the psalms] according to the petitions of the Lord’s Prayer, and thus to show how the Psalter is entirely ta...
2022: A Year of Peace Calendar
Here’s a little calendar to help you sanctify the time. 2022: A Year of Peace Here are the images. Feel free to use them for anything else.
Theological Gift Guide, 2021
well, really, it’s more of a link to things on sale today. But most is theological. First, a bunch of you (three) have asked if I’ve made a calendar for...
All Saints, three sermons, Mattew 5, 1 John 3, Revelation 7
Here’s the latest Sunday Drive Home podcast: Theology is not boring, it can’t be. The Lord’s word is the height of what is good and true and...
How to deal with lust. (Advice from Martin Luther)
Here’s a study of this text: Moreover, it is not without purpose and beside the point when Holy Scripture states that Isaac married Rebecca when he was 40...
The most important thing a Christian needs to know, a beautiful sermon by Martin Luther
Here’s the latest Sunday Drive Home podcast: Theology is not boring, it can’t be. The Lord’s word is the height of what is good and true and b...
Luther on Genesis 25:20-21
and Isaac was forty years old when he took to wife Rebecca, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean. I have frequent...
Luther on the Helpfulness of Teachers in the Church
I’ve often said this about Luther: “Martin Luther is only helpful if he brings us the Word and points to Christ. Which he does (most of the time).” Luther says....