Preparing Rudderless Ships
The Apostle Paul instructs the young pastor Timothy to “wage the good warfare, holding faith and a good conscience” (I Tim. 1:18-19) and…
Andrew Preus
The Apostle Paul instructs the young pastor Timothy to “wage the good warfare, holding faith and a good conscience” (I Tim. 1:18-19) and…
Greetings! My name is Jacob Hercamp and I am a vicar finishing up my year of “servitude” in a congregation that I have…
Since the word “vocation” is thrown around so much, I have been trying to work out in my mind and through study of…
First, Objective Justification and Subjective Justification are not two different justifications, but rather two parts of the act of Justification. My brother…
In arguing against the Huberian error that because Christ has redeemed all men he therefore elected all men, Hunnius maintains: But we respond…
Philip Melanchthon, Common Places: Loci Communes 1521, trans. Christian Preus (St. Louis:CPH, 2014). I have three reasons why our readers should purchase and…
Forensic justification is that God makes us righteous by crediting to us the righteousness of Jesus. He doesn’t make us righteous through a…
“These are Your Words, Heavenly Father. Sanctify us by the Truth. Your Word is Truth. Amen.” I cannot count how many times I…
O Sinner, come thy sin to mourn So vast and vile that it has borne Christ to this vale of anguish. Son of…
[On Sunday the following overtures were adopted, unanimously, both by my congregation and our circuit forum, to be submitted to the LCMS Convention…
In previous articles I have stressed the centrality of justification in Christian doctrine and thus the eminent relevance of doctrine to the people…
Jesus blesses and sanctifies marriage. He does this in two ways. First He creates it, and then He redeems it. Jesus created marriage when…
What happens when Justification becomes peripheral and not the central article? I’ll tell you what happens: Doctrine becomes not life. Doctrine becomes something…
Below is a set of theses from the late Dr. Marquart, posted here in honor of the Reformation. Originally written for class and…
The students of Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary, St. Catharines, ON started a student journal last year, which is called Propter Christum. This year,…
I started writing this post about a month ago, and I stopped writing and almost forgot about it. But yesterday I read from…
This past weekend, I taught on the 2nd Article of the Creed at a confirmation retreat. In preparation, I was given a nifty…
Text: Mark 9:30-37 Our Condescending God and Lord Dear friends in Christ, When someone is condescending, we usually understand that to mean that…
On September 19th, 2006, a true doctor of the Church “went into the nearer presence of his Father” (his own words). Professor Kurt…
One thing I have noticed about the opponents of Objective Justification is that they tend to say that we who hold to it…
Before I begin my delayed vicarage, I need to finish my treatise. I am writing on the church in the theology of John…
I admit it: I listen to NPR. Every day, any night I’m driving, my radio dial is turned to the local station for…
I recently listened to an Issues Etc edition on prayer (above), and I thought there were some very helpful and insightful points in there. Over all, I really enjoyed it. But I would like to respectfully offer a contribution to the conversation. The following is a revision of a post I wrote on propterchristum.blogspot.com.
What is the Church? She is a shelter from the storm for sinners who thirst for mercy in Christ. She is the collection of…
In Acts 20:28, Paul tells the elders in Ephesus, “Pay special attention to yourselves and of all the flock in which the Holy…