May the Gospel remain not only in our ears and on our tongues, but come into our hearts and break forth fresh into loving deeds!—Martin Luth...

By loving we became friends: but He loved us as enemies, that we might be made friends. He first loved us, and gave us the gift of loving Hi...

As vast as that huge table that Aunt Emma filled on the back porch each summer with the fruits of her garden labors, but it reminds me of he...

For who can harm or injure a man who has this confidence, who knows that heaven and earth, and all the angels and the saints will cry to God...

The law, if you use it aright, sends you to Christ. For since its aim is to justify man, and it fails to effect this, it remits us to Him wh...

And as nature's works do not precede or make nature, but nature must first be present and do the works out of and by virtue of herself; ...

Be not ungrateful for His so great grace, who, though He had one Only Son, would not that He should be alone a Son; but, that He might have ...

True believers are no hypocrites. They crucify the flesh with its evil desires and lusts. Inasmuch as they have not altogether put off the s...

Then mark well, brethren, the two birth-stocks, Adam and Christ: two men are; but one of them, a man that is man; the other, a Man that is G...

The righteousness which at present is ours is of faith.—St. Augustine, on 1 John 2.

God does not like doubt and dejection. He hates dreary doctrine, gloomy and melancholy thought. God likes cheerful hearts. He did not send H...

The Christian feels the unholy condition of his heart, and it makes him feel so low that he cannot trust in his good works. He therefore goe...

Consequently, if you have confessed yourself a sinner, the truth is in you: for the Truth itself is light. Your life has not yet shone in pe...

I remember how Doctor Staupitz used to say to me: "I have promised God a thousand times that I would become a better man, but I never k...

Now the Lord Himself not only shows us what evil we should shun, and what good we should do, which is all that the letter of the law is able...

Wild blueberries? After we finished up our breakfast, prayers, and coffee, I noted that we didn't have much wind and it might be a ...

...I n order that men may not deceive themselves and think they have faith when they have not, they are to examine their works, whether the...

Observe how everything agrees perfectly that God's love gives its favor freely, does not take nor seek anything for it, and how faith al...

If we make our sins look small, we make Christ look small. That would be the same thing as saying: He is capable of forgiving small sins,...

He, moreover, who says that any man, after he has received remission of sins, has ever lived in this body, or still is living, so righteousl...