Our prayer is part of our work in Christ's heavenly administration of His Father's realm.—Dr. John Kleinig, Grace upon Grace , p. 15...

No, not everyone who dies goes to a better place. Some, sadly, unnecessarily, die and go to hell—but not you. Your Lord was crucified and ra...

Let us not abandon the fellowship in our congregation and fail to come to worship services. Already at that time (writing of Hebrews) there ...

The pastor schools his people so that with the right kind of pious talk they will then be equipped to win other people for the church. In pl...

We can never surrender the promises that are bound up with the means of grace. A person can lose the blessing of Baptism by not again and ag...

The recognition of this reality of the Word of God is the basis for recognizing the reality of the church.—Hermann Sasse, We Confess the Chu...

Wherever the means of grace are rightly administered, there God fulfills His promise that the Word will not return empty, there faith is cre...

When the holy ministry is received and instituted as given by the Lord, not over  the congregation but in  the congregation, then it becomes...

The Word falls equally on every ear, but the lives of those who flourish in faith and good works make the labors of their preachers so much ...

Christ's self-sacrifice upon the cross is the  sacrificial element in the sacrament. Thus to "do" the sacrament is simply to p...

The privileged entrance into the Holy of Holies is indeed that which is at the heart of Christian worship: the celebration of the Lord's...

It is logically possible to think of the church as it is in an infinitesimally small moment of time. Theologically and actually it is not po...

With God's glory glowing behind the Old Testament sacrifices, they cast a shadow in the shape of a cross.—Daniel Brege, Eating God's...

As one considers the Lord's Supper and its ingredients, one should realize that Christ's will and testament is to be treated as prec...

All Christian love emanates from God's love. Without Christ, we wouldn't know what love is. Christ has not only shown us how to live...

The traditional Western liturgy for the Lord's Supper quite explicitly confesses Jesus as our peace offering in the Pax and in the Agnus...

Liturgical worship feels unnatural to us because does not reflect our "natural" feelings. Rather, it teaches us what to feel when ...

Now, all men have been reconciled to the Father in the death of Jesus Christ. No one who believes in Him, even if he sleep, will ever die. J...

It is the theological task of the Lutheran Church—a task which she can carry out only insofar as she has preserved the pure Gospel—to discov...

In the Lord's Supper the boundaries of space and time are overcome. Heaven and earth become one, the inseparable interval that separates...