Since he that ruins his brother, has at once subverted peace, and wronged joy, more grievously than he that plunders money. And what is wors...

Therefore it is convincingly proved that there must be something greater and more precious than all good works, which makes a man saintly an...

Such feeling, as long as it is against our will and we would rather be rid of it, can harm no one. For if we did not feel it, it could not b...

Totals for month: 4,000 pushups; 270 pullups; 450 Kb swings. I'll take it. Push ups were split between initial ten with hands on level o...

Gave He you not the laver of Regeneration, and forgave He not all your former sins? Hath He not after this forgiveness, and the laver, also ...

Such justification is hidden not only from reason and the world, but also from the saints. For it is not a thought, or word, or work in us, ...

But this should serve God's purpose of breaking our pride and keeping us humble. God has reserved this right for Himself: if anyone want...

Be in anxiety then as seeing the Master of all sitting on his judgment-seat, and do not make schisms and divisions in the Church, by breakin...

For it is a great thing, which I must believe and grasp with my heart, namely, that all my sins are forgiven and that through this faith I a...

There is, indeed, the greatest need to pray for earthly authority and government. By them, most of all, God preserves for us our daily bread...

...a wonderful time. Before the pandemic, our normal routine, after Sunday Church, was to sit down to breakfast with the David Weedon family...

Ran across these two recently: my dad's home place. Sadly, it's only a heap of rubble these days. Remember eating out on the bac...

Of Luther's sermon for Trinity III in the new AE  78:128ff. He begins with one of his most striking and beautiful expositions of the PLA...

Wherefore it was not money, but His own Blood that He gave as bail for us.—St. John Chrysostom, Homily 25 on Romans

It is a great thing to love. It is far greater to love like a brother, but the greatest of all is to love as a father loves his child; and t...

So he [the devil] provokes the world against us, fans and stirs the fire, so that he may hinder and drive us back, cause us to fall, and aga...

Here he seems to me to be giving a gentle hint about fasting. For it is not unlikely that some who fasted were always judging those who did ...

Calamity will force you to step out of yourself and not to rely on the counsel, help, and strength of men, but you must have Christ in your ...

Now we pray for both these things. We pray that the kingdom may come to those who are not yet in it, and, by daily growth that it may come t...

For this is why he proceeds, for God has received him. Why then do you speak to him of the law, as to a transgressor? For God has received h...