on our baptismal identity .

In the community of the Church, as it is realized in the Supper, we are dealing with a spiritual and physical state of affairs between Chris...

Indeed, in the Lord's Supper the essence of the Gospel is proclaimed - that Christ was delivered unto death in our behalf, and His own ...

So that no one may lack confidence in the divine forgiveness, our Lord like a very kind father consoles us through the words of the Prophet:...

Jeremiah 23 and 33 are an interesting study in contrasts. For in the former, it is the Branch who is named "The LORD our Righteousness...

Only as we continually repent can we live. -- Hermann Sasse, *The Lonely Way* Vol. 1:71

Once the wood of the curse, [the cross] has now become, after the Promised Blessing for all people offered Himself upon it, a tree of blessi...

Beloved brethren, whenever someone happens to fall into some serious sin or fault, as human weakness does, he should neither despair because...

gets me so psyched for Advent/Christmas season as listening to the Praetorius' Mass for Christmas Morning. Glorious. Simply glorious. ...

today, the Mass began with FRANZMANN'S "In Adam We Have All Been One." Sweet! I love it when Roman Catholics sing Lutheran d...

We pray You, O Lord, to keep our tongues from evil and our lips from speaking deceit, that as Your holy angels continuously sing praises to ...

For us Western Christians, the Advent fast is fast approaching (our Eastern fellow Christians already have begun it). But how shall we appr...

What I suspect is an under-utilized part of our wonderful Treasury of Daily Prayer , is the Daily Prayer for the Christian, beginning on pag...

Sasse wrote a fine book on the topic, but Fr. Peters answers in a far more succinct way that is just as challenging. Check it out: What is...

Theology is interpretation of God's Word, and not the exercise of human wit in the fields of the divine mysteries. -- Herman Sasse, *Scr...

The fact that even those who believe in Holy Scripture err in articles of faith is not because God's Word is unclear and misleading, but...

It is certain, dearly beloved, that if we always consider God's benefits toward us, which He conferred without any preceding merits on o...

...Hoegaarden is a quite fine beer. I think I need to stock up!

Lutheran doctrine is not identical with the doctrine of Luther. -- Hermann Sasse, *Here We Stand* p. 78

It is a source of great joy to me, dearly beloved, and I thank God that you come to church with pious devotion on the holy feasts. Although ...