...FAR be it from me to boast, when I can let Randy do it for me: RAsburry

The question put by the owner of the vineyard is an important one: "Why do you stand here idle all day?" When put to those outsi...

Okay, so ecumenical might be a tad pretentious for the discussions on this blog. But the recent dust-up has me thinking about the value of ...

I remember, too, the same mysterious power in the scene before Caiaphas and Pilate... The curious uneasiness of the world when it is face to...

"This is the cause of all evils, the not knowing the Scriptures. We go into battle without arms, and how are we to come off safe?"...

"When the Lord taught us the doctrine of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, He did not make arithmetic a part of this gift!" St. Basil...

All events in the history of the world must serve the Church... The universe, from the Pleiades to Hitler, stands because the Church is here...

Christ offered Himself, within His heart, before God, and this no one saw or noticed; therefore His bodily flesh and blood are a spiritual o...

So, then, the Father is holy, the Son is holy, and the Spirit is holy, but they are not three Holies; for there is one Holy God, one Lord. F...

I refer to the Missouri Synod brand - not the technical term for presbyter. I was discussing this yesterday with a friend, and thought it m...

Therefore, lock up your reason, tread your wisdom under foot, and do not let them grope about, or feel, or think, in matters that concern yo...

And from this we gather that we have derived from Adam, in whom we all have sinned, not all our actual sins, but only original sin; whereas ...

That is a question that can often be quite telling. Judging from certain comments on various blog posts, I have heard several folks chime i...

Reumann turns to Krauth for a summary of AC V: As one ninteenth-century theologian, Charles Porterfield Krauth, summed up the import of Arti...

No man is so high nor can he be raised so high, that he need no longer fear that he may be made the lowest. And again: no man has fallen s...

The one who is unwilling to be held by God is willing to be held by every sickness. -- St. Peter Chrysologus, Sermon 99A, par. 5

1. This is a Lutheran blog. You are welcome here to discuss theology even if you are not Lutheran; you are not welcome here to attack the ...

"Seen from certain perspectives, the Henrician settlement looks less like 'Catholicism without the Pope' than like Lutheranism ...

Therefore the holy church cannot and may not lie or suffer false doctrine, but must teach nothing except what is holy and true, that is, God...

Since, therefore, the tradition from the apostles does thus exist in the Church, and is permanent among us, let us revert to the Scriptural ...