A very wise and holy man once observed: "If truth be told, my attitude towards all gatherings of bishops is to avoid them. I have never...

Faith alone unites us to our Savior, so that we derive our spiritual life, our justification, and our salvation, from Him, as the branches d...

Faith is a relational power or a relationship which brings about the immediate, perfect, and supranatural union of the believer with the God...

Here's Doctor Lee Maxwell's homily on the Second Part of the Passion History. He gave me permission to post it for the edification ...

Striking, is it not, that the Larger Catechism twice speaks of the Eucharist as daily fare? "Therefore, the Sacrament is given as a dai...

Here's the bio from the LCMS website: At the beginning of the third century, the Roman emperor Septimus Severus forbade conversions to...

Whatever adversities then, whatever temptations, the faithful soul here suffers, let them be regarded not as a mark that God is reproving us...

The Logos destroys the tyranny of the evil one, who dominates us through deceit, by triumphanty using as a weapon against him the flesh defe...

...don't miss the fascinating latest on 2 Cor. 2:10. Also the Latin has "in persona Christi"! Fr. Fritz' keen eye has de...

[I'm not preaching this Oculi - Pr. GeRue will have the honors at St. Paul this time round - but here is a homily for this Sunday fro...

Jesus, grant that balm and healing In Your holy wounds I find, Ev'ry hour that I am feeling Pains of body and of mind. Should some evil ...

Temptation also purifies our souls. Our great Physician, Christ, employs many bitter remedies to expel the malignant spiritual diseases of ...

Complete unwareness of the loss of the virtues marks the downward path to godlessness. For the person who habitually disobeys God, throug...

So unworthily do I use the remission of sins He has granted me, and so disdainfully do I treat His first proffers of grace to me, that I gre...

The wrath of God is the painful sensation we experience when we are being trained by Him. Through this painful experience of unsought suffe...

I dare not compare myself to any of Thy saints, nor even to any repentant sinner, unless perchance to the penitent thief upon the cross. Ha...

Lord, you are then not only that than which nothing greater can be thought; you are something greater than it is possible to think about. F...

I note that my good friend, Fr. Fenton, followed the option in the Orthodox Missal that permitted the Gospel reading for this Sunday in Lent...

So, I'm working my way again through this piece by Schroeder and I can't get beyond the Luther citation from Table Talk. You see, E...

Well, if you're observing the Western version of the fast, Sundays are not fasting days. Today is the last Sunday that Jo and Dave will...