Download: Portions selected from Matthew 26:15-27:66, Mark 14:12-15:47, Luke 22:7-23:56, and John 13:1-19:42, arranged chronologically to tell the story of the arrest, trials, suffering, crucifixion, death, and burial of our…
Martin Luther on the two types of fasting. Here’s a helpful distinction from Luther: the fasting we choose, and the fasting God chooses. This Gospel is read today at the…
Why do we need forgiveness in the Lord’s Supper if we are already forgiven in baptism? I was answering this question in the March 7 edition of the Lent-Up-Early What-Not…
This is a nice little paragraph in Martin Luther’s introduction to the book of Psalms in which he sketches out the four winds that toss around the ship of the…
Looking at Psalm 2:1 this morning, and noticing a few things I hadn’t before. Why do the nations rageand the peoples plot in vain? Psalm 2:1 First, this verse is…
I’m finally reading Luthardt. [Alex, sorry it’s taken me eight years.] This reminds me of the C. S. Lewis reflection from a few weeks ago. The remembrance, more or less…
(and against speculative theology…) Here’s a few fantastic pages from Luther’s commentary on Genesis 26:9 for your consideration. [HT: Chris Brynestad for this reference.] For the theologians, note how Luther…
There are a lot of resources for Bible Study out there. Here are some of the free tools I use all the time. (If you have suggestions, please put them…
In 1577, 31 years after Luther’s death, the theologians committed to the Augsburg Confession gathered in conversation to address false and dangerous teaching that was coming into the church. The…
Here’s the prayer for the New Year from the Lutheran Liturgy (mentioned in this Sunday Drive Home).
… 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), explaining and illustrating the three parts of a…
…we may now boast that God has become our brother, nay our flesh and blood. (Martin Luther, Christmas Sermon)
Plotting of happiness and flinging empty bottles,
Turning from your vacancy to fevered enthusiasm
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…
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…
“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 taken up…
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.
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…