In the holy Lord’s Supper, we do not just receive bread and wine. Rather, by means of the blessed bread we simultaneously receive the true b...

My will refuses to follow Thy will. Do Thou thyself subdue me to Thy will, that I might thereby receive salvation and glorify Thy will, for ...

(Quoting Luther): “Indeed, what could be a more sobering and terrifying demonstration and proclamation of the wrath of God against sin than ...

[We are to read the Scriptures] piously and obediently, so that we do not perchance foist our own pre-conceived notions upon the Scriptures ...

The adversary has deceived me; he has stripped me of my garment and stolen it away. Because of him I remain fruitless and must go to the jud...

For since the proclamation of the law alone, without Christ, either makes presumptuous people, who believe that they can fulfill the law wit...

For we cannot at first glance immediately grasp the Holy Scriptures with a hurried reading of it. Instead, we have to make it well known to ...

Thou knowest, O Lord, my passions hidden in darkness; the sores of my soul are known to Thee. Heal me, O Lord, and I will be healed. If Thou...

The distinction between the law and the gospel is a particularly glorious light. It serves to divide God’s Word properly [cf. 2 Tim. 2:15] a...

...the first Sunday AFTER the first full moon AFTER the vernal equinox. That makes this our Easter moon and it means next Sunday is Easter:

Homily for Palmarum 2021  People loved by God, because we have spent the Lenten Midweeks meditating on the Holy Passion, today’s sermon will...

Served at the altar for the first time today. It was a privilege to serve with him:

Whew!!! Started last evening with Saturday Divine Service. Yes, featured Palm Sunday procession, a Baptism for Chris and Amilia’s little one...

...have absolutely nothing on southerners when it comes to multiplicity of names. I was thinking of this last night for no apparent reason. ...

In God’s Word we find everything that we need for godliness.—Johann Gerhard, Schola Pietatis II:36. Whatever kind of sinner a person may be,...

I vow to change my ways and I fast, but everything remains the same. I am zealous to glorify Thee with my lips, but I have no zeal to please...

On the other hand, this does not mean that faith only lays hold of righteousness and salvation at the beginning and thereafter delegates its...

The ever-faithful, most loving God, who desires all men to be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth, has, out of sheer, overwhelming ...

The favors of God so far exceed human hope and expectation, that often they are not believed. For God has bestowed upon us such things as th...

Here we must take great care not to draw works into the article of justification and salvation and mix them with it. Therefore it is proper ...