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[From Synod's Facebook Page] Today we celebrate the birth of St. John the Baptist. The Lutheran Service Book includes the Nativity ...

...we are LOVING the pool. Not quite finished - we've still got to order the steps and connect the deck to the pool itself. Hopefully wi...

Today as always people ask, What does the church actually do ? It prays. The praying church is one of the constantly recurring themes of ear...

In order that He might not destroy those whom He had made, He donned the body of a servant that His flesh might free our flesh. This is the ...

Our Lord Jesus Christ, then, prays not for the twelve Apostles alone, but rather for all who were destined in every age to yield to and obey...

But if anyone wonders why we should receive forgiveness twice, what it means that one should be absolved of sins and then still receive the ...

This dispute concerning the two wills and the two natural operations in Christ is no idle thing, for in addition to the points we have ment...

For He that was truly God, and had no sin in Him, was yet Man; and just as the sentence of condemnation for transgression went forth over al...

As to the current practice of private confession, I am heartily in favor of it, even though it cannot be proved from the Scriptures. It is ...

Sins are just the symptom; our real dilemma is death.—Pr. Hal Senkbeil, Sanctification , p. 132.

Faith without love for God is an empty product of our imagining, a hull without fruit, a shell without a kernel, a painted picture without l...

For truly, He has not only delivered from sins, but has also placed among the approved. For, not that He might deliver us from evils only, ...

An Englishman who brought the Good News to Germany and to the Netherlands. Martyred upon this day in 754. From The Treasury : Almighty...

I'm working through Casimir Kucharek's The Byzantine-Slav Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom.  His chapters on the early centuries are q...

We must remember that the closer we come to the Last Day, the more cunningly our evil enemy will attempt to deceive us into thinking that th...

Therefore not in mere hearing is the word of salvation, nor in only learning is life, but in keeping what was heard, and as a certain rule a...

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,...