2023 Lenten Series – “Given and Shed for You – the Lord’s Supper for Lent” – Service Plan
We are in our sixth year of covering the Small Catechism for Lent, and so we have come to the Sacrament of the…
Vicarious Satisfaction in Liturgy: Invocation
NOTE: This article may be downloaded as a PDF here. Outline Introduction Specialness of the Name Sign of the Cross Significance of the…
Vicarious Satisfaction in Liturgy: Worship in General
NOTE: This essay may be downloaded in a PDF here. Introduction Lutheran Orthodoxy teaches that an indispensable part of the mighty work that…
Atonement in Our Circles and Church
Note: This article may be downloaded as a PDF here. Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common…
Commemoration of Saint Paul McCain, Theologian and Publisher
Two years ago this past Friday, our Lord called to himself the soul of Paul McCain. “Our churches teach that the history of…
Vicarious Satisfaction in Lutheran Hymns
Note: The full article may be downloaded as a PDF here. Abstract Lutheran Orthodoxy teaches that an indispensable part of the mighty work…
A good and godly transition – Steadfast Press
There have been a lot of changes going on at Steadfast Lutherans behind the scenes lately. Those changes will become much more visible…
Advent Devotion Daily Podcast
To listen to our Advent devotions in daily podcast format click here. Thank you to Rev. Paul Cain for making these available.
“Come and See” Devotions now available for download or on Amazon (kindle or softcover)
The devotional for this year is now available on Amazon. Here is the link to the Kindle version Here is the link to…
The Divine Service – an Explanation now in its ELEVENTH printing
— James R. Cutler, November 12, 2022 Announcing the eleventh printing of The Divine Service —an explanation, a pewcard. See more information about…
Synod Board of Directors and President address Concordia, Texas
The chairman of the Board of Directors of the LCMS and the Synod President have issued a statement. See the statement here:
Concordia Texas Decides to Opt out of LCMS Control
See the letter. Not sure how an entity like this can just decide to not abide by the Synod’s governance structure, but here…
“Come and See” – Advent 2022 Midweek Service Plan
This year for Advent we are going to have a lengthy season (the longest it can be). Also during this several festivals are…
Faith-Eroding Errors of Two Popular Theologies
Presented below is the Introduction from this essay. The whole essay may be downloaded as a PDF file here. Introduction Three Theologies This…
Vicarious Satisfaction in the Lutheran Confessions
Summary A prior article (“What Are You Taught About Redemption?“) briefly sketched the orthodox Christian doctrine of Christ’s redemption by vicarious satisfaction; heretical…
Nice Guys Ruin the Consolation of Christ’s Blood
In Scripture and the Lutheran confessions, Christ works the atonement in his life of active obedience (Matthew 3:15), his passive obedience of humbling…
What Are You Taught About Redemption?
Summary This article briefly sketches the orthodox Christian doctrine of Christ’s redemption by vicarious satisfaction; briefly sketches heretical denial of vicarious satisfaction by…
Luther on Monastic Vows
“There is no doubt that the monastic vow is in itself a most dangerous thing because it is without the authority and example of…
Who Causes Division and Offense?
The world has its ideas of what “divisive” means. It assigns blame for “divisiveness” based on its ideas. The preface to the Book…
Texans and secession… Concordia, Texas that is.
The following is from a June 6th memo from the “President & CEO” of Concordia University, Texas – Dr. Donald Christian sent to…
Reconciliation and Justification by Theodore Dierks: Review
Outline Citation Evaluation The Atonement in Lutheran Theology Plan of the Book The Problem Teaching of Christ and the Apostles Teaching of the…
President Harrison faithfully addresses CUW Regents
I received this with encouragement to share it. It is a very churchly letter that addresses many of the concerns expressed across Synod…
Update on CUW – Synod Visitation coming
There’s been a lot of things coming out about CUW. The best news is that Synod President Matthew Harrison has announced that next…
New BookofConcord.org site up and running.
A few weeks ago we announced that Steadfast Lutherans had been asked to take over management of bookofconcord.org. At that time we had…
Lent Devotion Podcast Ready to go for Ash Wednesday
Our devotions start up tomorrow and as usual thanks to the talent of Rev. Paul Cain, we have a podcast also available of…