July 2019

The Seventh Sunday after Trinity – “Food for Body and Soul”

The Seventh Sunday after Trinity July 14, 2013 “Food for Body and Soul” Mark 8:1-9 Click here to listen…

In this book (Jack D. Kilcrease, The Doctrine of the Atonement from Luther to Forde (Eugene, Oregon: Wipf & Stock, 2018), Dr. Kilcrease…

Dear Readers of BJS, I had the opportunity to present on the state of creation and evolution in the LCMS this past spring. …

I had the privilege to attend the 2019 LCMS Convention as a lay voting delegate for New England District Circuit Three. During the…

The following translation was the lead article for the January 25, 1910 issue of Der Lutheraner, the Missouri Synod’s German predecessor to the…

The Sixth Sunday after Trinity July 8, 2018 “Baptism, Dying, and Rising” Romans 6:3-11 Click here to listen audio…

The Fifth Sunday after Trinity July 1, 2018 “Defending the Faith” 1 Peter 3:8-15 Click here to listen audio…

Christ calls men to go into the world to fish for men and make them part of His kingdom in the Holy Christian…

Good works and the suffering of Christ and the Christian go hand in hand, indeed they are “the firstfruits” of the Spirit of…

[Photo of Sahar Sadlovsky Gold and child used by permission of Sahar Sadlovsky Gold. Thank you!] The child is with her father….

Fourth Sunday after Trinity June 24, 2018 “The Glory to be Revealed in Us” Romans 8:18-23 Click here to…

A voting delegate to a synodical convention has a duty to vote well. To vote well, one needs to study and understand the…

Part III, Article III. Of Repentance. 1] This office [of the Law] the New Testament retains and urges, as St. Paul, Rom. 1:18…

Trinity Three Sermon June 17, 2018 “Father’s Day” Luke 15:11-32 CLICK this link to listen to audio of this…

This is how and where God the Son “receives sinners and eats with them”—He pours out God the Holy Spirit in the ministry…

It is politically incorrect in our time for me to say with any certainty that the man is the head of the house….