Those who wish to argue that there is no cooperation by the new man in new obedience need to be candid in acknowledging that they are propos...

For what is asserted without the Scriptures or proven revelation may be held as an opinion but need not be believed.—Blessed Martin Luther, ...

Will you deem Him little on this account, that He humbled Himself for your sake, and because to seek for that which had wandered the Good Sh...

"For through the cross joy has come into all the world." This joy is pure joy because it does not depend on anything in this world...

Since faith cannot be idle, it must demonstrate the fruits of love by doing good and avoiding evil. The Holy Spirit is at hand; he does not...

So let me first say that what I have written deals with matters that are a consequence and result of the Gospel and justification.   The Gos...

I say this to keep anyone from supposing that once faith has been accepted, sin should not be emphasized. Sin is really sin, regardless of w...

Therefore God chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world, predestinating us to the adoption of children, not because we were goin...

"The responsory is the oldest form of the ecclesiastical song employed in the Church... The responsorial song consists of a song built ...

So I was looking a little wistfully at one of my favorite t-shirts. It's got a scene from Charlie Brown's Christmas on it, but it...

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Many Lutheran churches have preserved the order of bishops. Some of them even have apostolic succession. So has the Church of Sweden, and we...

A doctrine is not proved to be disputable, simply because it is disputed.—C. P. Krauth, Conservative Reformation , p. 604.

Let us, then, understand the calling whereby they become elected,— not those who are elected because they have believed, but who are elected...

I noticed as I was cutting the grass the other day: Jean and Mark not only blessed us with three lilacs (all turning green!), but with som...

After a beautiful Quasimodogeniti service, we came home to snatch a few more precious minutes with Sawyer before Dean and Lauren packed up...

...a trip up to Grafton this afternoon. We took the dogs, hiked up the steep trail and back down a different way, and then Dean, Lauren and ...

...my mind remembers. I was reading Sawyer his abbreviated edition of There's a Wocket in My Pocket and was immediately troubled: the ze...

...Odd how HUGE Jo's presence is by its absence in her home, particularly in the living room... Not quite two weeks ago, I was shovellin...