Martin Luther Calendar Contest
Friends, Here’s the idea: We’ll mix up some Lucas Cranach art and some Martin Luther quotations and build a calendar that will be beautiful and cate...
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Two Religions
Here’s a nice section from Mueller’s Dogmatics I found digging around for more references to the opinio legis. Enjoy. 4. THE TWO SOURCES (PRINCIPIA ...
Elihu’s Seven Theses of Divine Justice
These were written by Pr Brian (the) Flamme, who talked about it with me on Cross Defense today: 1. God is not the cause of evil. Job 34:10 2. God...
Dear ELCA
Dear ELCA, You’ve been tricked. I’m sorry I don’t know a nicer way to say this. I’ve been watching your assembly videos and reading the resolu...
The Usefulness of Francis Pieper’s Dogmatics
Thanks to Jason Braaton and the Gottesdienst Crowd for having me on to talk about Dogmatic Theology the work of a pastor. Check it out: https://www.gottesdienst...
Apologetic Opportunism
My friend Pastor Brian Flamme completed his Master’s Thesis titled “Apologetic Opportunism: The Viability of Various Apologetic Methods in Light of ...
Seelsorger 5 published
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The Seven Rules of the Cross
The following is an excerpt from Preparing for Death – The Holy Art of Dying by Pastor Martin Moller (1547-1606). You can find an audio version, downloadab...
A Catechism on Death, Life, and the Resurrection
Download as a PDF booklet. What is Death? Temporal death is the separation of the body and the soul. Luke 12:20– But God said to him, ‘F...
Five Rules for Reading the Book of Revelation
This is an excerpt from Has American Christianity Failed. We will, then, consider five rules for reading the Revelation, with the hopes that this book will deli...
Martyr’s Faith, First Reviews
The first reviews for A Martyr’s Faith for a Faithless World have come in. Wow. Thank you. Reflecting the heart of a pastor and the sober mind of one who....
Stoicism, and Paul and Seneca
I have a theory, something like this: POINT 1: Human wisdom tends in two directions: Pain is bad. Good is good. We’ve called those two divergent views by ...
Hope
Key Verses Psalm 33:17–22 17 The war horse is a false hope for salvation, and by its great might it cannot rescue. 18 Behold, the eye of the Lord is...
A Martyr’s Faith for a Faithless World
Here’s the next book. I wrote this one for Hannah. I want her to read it as she heads off to college. There are a lot of things that attack...
Martin Luther’s Preface to Romans
This Epistle is really the chief part of the New Testament and the very purest Gospel, and is worthy not only that every Christian should know it word for word,...
Martin Luther’s introduction to Paul’s Epistle to the Galatians
First of all, it is good for us that we speak of the argument of this Epistle [to the Galatians]: that is to say, what matter St. Paul here chiefly...
How to be a theologian?
Pray, read the Bible, and suffer. Pretty simple. Here’s how Luther explains it: Moreover, I want to point out to you a correct way of studying theology, f...
Four Poems for Holy Week (plus nine more)
We have to stretch our words towards the mysteries of Holy Week. It takes the best of our humanity, hymns, music, poems, art, everything, strain to touch the gl...
G. K. Chesterton on the Silliness of the Slow-Motion Miracle of Evolution
I’m looking for that little paragraph where G. K. Chesterton talks about the “word” and the “promise” as the pillars of civilization. I haven’t found it. But I ...
The Day of Atonement at the Time of Jesus
You guys know I’m a big fan of Alfred Edersheim, especially his magnificent work On the Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah. Yesterday, to better understa...