The Lutheran Confessions are Pastoral The constant drum beat throughout them is the goal of comforting and caring for souls. The Lutheran Confessions are not theological speculations or abstractions. The times in which it was written called for pastoral care on a scale that could only be compared to a national emergency. Souls bruised and [...]
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The Lutheran Confessions: Pastoral, Practical and Personal
Posted in Luther, Lutheran Confessions on July 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A Real Savior for Real Sinners
Posted in Luther on July 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Get used to believing that Christ is a real Savior and that you are a real sinner. For God is neither joking nor is He dealing in imaginary affairs, but He was deadly serious when He sent His own Son into the world and sacrificed Him for our sake, etc. (Romans 8:32; John 3:16). Satan – [...]
Does Being and Remaining Lutheran Still Matter?
Posted in Luther, Lutheran Confessions, Lutherans on June 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I found this today from cyberbrethren.com. Happy Anniversary! Before we go further we need to clear up a common misconception. While insisting on the truth of Lutheranism, we can never allow ourselves to do so in an arrogant, haughty or self-righteous manner. People who are passionate about the truth of Biblical Lutheranism know that the [...]
Did Luther really post the 95 thesis?
Posted in Luther on April 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Scholars enjoy trying to debunk things that have been believed for a long time. Academic mythbusting is an important pursuit, but often, becomes an end in itself that ultimately serves only to advance the career, and bolster the ego, of the particular scholar making the latest and greatest claims of “new findings.” The question of [...]
Commemoration of Blessed Martin Luther: Confessor and Reformer of the Church
Posted in Luther on February 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Martin Luther, born on November 10, 1483, in Eisleben, Germany, initially began studies leading toward a degree in law. However, after a close encounter with death, he switched to the study of theology, entered an Augustinian monastery, was ordained a priest in 1505, and received a doctorate in theology in 1512. As a professor at [...]
What Really is a Lutheran?
Posted in Luther, Lutherans on November 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What really is a Lutheran? This is a question which has not only perplexed non-Lutherans who have observed Lutherans in our country and all over the world split into a confusing plethora of territorial churches and synods; but the question is asked, and very sincerely, by more and more Lutherans who are distressed over the [...]
Glad – A Mighty Fortress
Posted in Luther on November 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Happy Birthday Luther. Very good video.
Happy Birthday Martin
Posted in Luther on November 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today is the birthday of Martin Luther, born on November 10, 1483. The photo above is a view out of a second floor window, across from the small room that scholars now believe is where Luther was born. I took the first photo in his birthhouse in Eisleben, German, ironically, the same town in which [...]
More Luther
Posted in Luther on September 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On the sinful misuse of reason: But that which is not flesh, which is superior to flesh, is called spirit. Christ wants to say: If all reason could be put together, it could not understand this or tolerate it. The holier, the more ingenious, the more proficient and clever reason is, the less it comprehends. [...]
From Luther
Posted in Luther on September 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been studying some writings of Luther lately. Here is something of interest. On Jesus’ rejection by his own disciples: Even His disciples themselves declared: “What a strange, peculiar, and stupid sermon! Who can remain His disciple or adhere to Him? He says it was nothing that the fathers ate manna, and that He gives [...]
