Because a particular answer was in harmony with Scripture and tradition and therefore orthodox, Rome  [i.e., in the days of the early church...

"When there is no vision" or prophesy, that is, when the public, ecclesiastical ministry ceases, "the people will rebel....

There are differences in regard to many of the divine sacraments; nor are all things observed there [i.e., at Rome] as at Jerusalem; indeed,...

That thou wouldst deign to rule and govern thy holy catholic church: we entreat thee to hear us. That thou wouldst deign to preserve all b...

The life of the church, precisely of the local church, is shaped by the nature of Gospel preaching and Gospel sacraments, and by their inner...

After people have thus been taught and exhorted to confess their sin and amend their ways they should then be most diligently exhorted to p...

For to this end He entered when the doors were closed upon the disciples, and gave them the Holy Spirit by breathing on them, and after givi...

...looking forward to a nice long holiday weekend (and get-together with Pr. Pearson and his wife on Sunday and the St. Paul's Choir on ...

These two sides of our church, its toleration and its narrowness, are an absolute mystery to the Reformed. That the pope should be called th...

Consider the manner of God's giving. You will find that God, the greatest and best giver, gives with a bounty that cannot be measured. F...

Let us think nothing our own, seeing even faith itself is not our own, but more God's (than ours). For by grace are you saved through fa...

The compassion of a person is for his neighbor, but the compassion of the Lord is for all living beings. He rebukes and trains and teaches t...

...when I cannot get over the silliness inherent in the chopping up of our great spiritual treasures and offering only bits and pieces. TL...

Pentecost is the feast of joy, for "the Holy Spirit turns to joy whatever He touches" (Seraphim of Sarov). This is so because the ...

Text: Romans 8:12–17 The Holy Spirit is no spirit of bondage, no spirit of fear. That’s another spirit and he’s anything but holy. The un...

It would have been better to understand the sacraments in this way as anticipation of the redemption of the end time instead of forcing them...

Each sin, a transgression of the divine Law, is an offense to the high majesty of the eternal, holy, and just God and thus merits eternal re...

Therefore be the more earnest always to be followers first of God and then of the Saints; that after death they also may receive you as well...

...on the Gosnell case here  from LCMS Life Ministries.

But assuredly that which the sacred Psalm sings in our ears, is true; “Because my father and my mother have forsaken me, but the Lord has t...