Bach’s St. John’s Passion, A Quick-Start Guide
Bach’s St. John’s Passion is a musical setting of John 18-19 (with two verses from Matthew inserted), interspersed with chorales (Lutheran Hymns) and original a...
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Five Critical Questions about Living Together Before Marriage (and Chastity)
The Bible speaks clearly about marriage and chastity. The Christian is appointed by the Lord to pursue the virtue of chastity, to honor the great gift of marria...
Filioque: Seven Proofs
In the Nicene Creed, the western church confesses that the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son. The eastern churches do not. This is a point of lon...
Christmas Meditation: The Marvel of the Angels (with help from Luther)
Luther on Jacob’s Ladder, this is great Christmas preaching! But what is this ascent and descent? I reply that it is this very mystery that in one and the same....
Give Thanks 2023 Calendar
The theme for the Around the Word 2023 calendar is “Give Thanks.” Combining classic Christian art with Bible passages about Thanksgiving, this calen...
Twelve Thanksgiving Texts
Download a pdf of twelve Thanksgiving Text cards here:
Creation Conference 2022 Media
On November 5, 2022, Dr Joel Heck and I lectured on creation topics. You can find the audio and handouts of the sessions here. “The Importance of Beginnin...
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...
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...