A good work, even though well performed, is a venial sin according to God’s merciful judgment, and a mortal sin according to his strict jud...

Let us not therefore remain craving after the things of this life, neither after the luxury of the table, or costliness of raiment. For you ...

This captain gave a good witness: he had built a school [synagogue] and loved his servant. However, as he came to Christ, he forgot all this...

The presbyter accordingly is the same as a bishop... Therefore as the presbyters know that they are subject to the one who has been placed o...

I heard today that Redeemer has posted the presentation I gave to their free conference titled: Why Remain Lutheran? It's All About Cons...

Just read a rather delightful paper on the topic by Fr. Heath Curtis located here: Apostolic Succession. Do read Eric Phillips insightful ...

The deeper we plunge Christ into the flesh of mankind, the better for us. For he subjected himself under the meanest purification Law, in or...

The doctrine of the incarnation was very hard to receive. For the exceeding measure of His lovingkindness and the magnitude of His condesc...

It is the intention of Paul that we should be rich in the Word of God, because our adversary, the devil, prowls around. Therefore it is not ...

And yet He is the only true physician both of souls and bodies. On this account He often seizes this nature of ours wantoning in prosperity,...

He's got to be my all time favorite among the holy fathers. From our Synod's website and the  Treasury : Given the added name o...

The important thing is that we have a tranquil and quiet heart and a mind filled with joy, that is, that we be content with the Word and wor...

If any man be effeminate, or a fornicator, or an idolator, or a doer of whatever ill you please, or if he be full of all the wickedness ther...

Therefore sin requires nothing else than God’s law. Where that enters the heart, sin is already alive and able to kill man if it wants to, u...

Neither is faith, he means, of ourselves. Because had He not come, had He not called us, how had we been able to believe? For how, says he, ...

It is true and necessary and right that the Law reveals your sin and accuses you; and sin, in turn, has the right to kill you and death to d...

For as he who is a child of man is by nature man, so also were we children of wrath even as others; i.e., no one was free, but we all did th...

And now St. Paul appropriately concludes with a song which he sings: “Thanks and praise be to God, who gave us such a victory!” We can joi...

Even so did Christ act: He represses first of all the source of the evil. For the source and root and mother of all evil is the nature of si...

But now He has stepped into our place, and in our behalf He has let the Law, sin, and death pounce on Him. He has not only removed these fro...