St. Michael and All Angels Day – “Guardian Angels”
St. Michael and All Angels Day October 4, 2009 “Guardian Angels” Matthew 18:10-11 Click here to listen to audio…
St. Michael and All Angels Day October 4, 2009 “Guardian Angels” Matthew 18:10-11 Click here to listen to audio…
The Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity September 9, 2018 “Christian Values” Matthew 6:24-34 Click here to listen to audio of…
What is this faith of the tenth leper by which Jesus says he was saved, not merely cleansed as He says of the…
The Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity September 1, 2018 “The Spirit and the Flesh” Galatians 5:16-24 Click here to listen…
The Lutheran School of Theology has put out some graduates who have just been ordained for the Word and Sacrament ministry their training…
We are, each of us, like the priest and the Levite who pass by the man dying on the road. It is not…
The Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity August 26, 2018 The Good Samaritan Luke 10:23-37 Click here to listen audio of…
Part III, Article VII. Of the Keys. 1] The keys are an office and power given by Christ to the Church for binding…
It was a rainy, yet glorious day in Minneapolis on Sunday, September 8th. The end of seven years of exile for a faithful…
A sinner cannot come to know or believe in God by his own free will any more than a deaf man can will…
When a theologian is asked to yield and make concessions in order that peace may at last be established in the Church, but…
The Twelfth Sunday after Trinity August 26, 2012 “God’s Word and our Confession” Mark 7:31-37 Click here to listen…
Faith boasts not of itself, but is always seeking the mercy of God for the forgiveness of sins. Forgiven in Christ Jesus, faith…
The Eleventh Sunday after Trinity August 19, 2012 “Where God Meets Us” Luke 18:9-14 Click here to listen to…
Jesus did not tolerate the misuse of His Father’s house and drove out those who robbed His people in the name of worship….
Part III, Article VI. Of the Sacrament of the Altar. 1] Of the Sacrament of the Altar we hold that bread and wine…
Lutherans are ordinarily not a triumphalistic people, unless we’re at an event with the word “district” or “synod” in the title, so when…
The following dialogue translation is from the August 16, 1904 issue of Der Lutheraner, the Missouri Synod’s German language predecessor to the Lutheran…
The Tenth Sunday after Trinity August 24, 2014 “What Makes for Peace” Luke 19:41-48 Click here to listen to…
As managers of God’s means of grace (1 Cor. 4:1), pastors have nothing of their own to give or withhold. They are not…
Part III, Article V. Of Baptism. 1] Baptism is nothing else than the Word of God in the water, commanded by His institution,…
Why does Jesus tell us to “Beware of false prophets?” These “ravenous wolves,” regardless of their pious appearance and stated intent, are destructive…
The Eighth Sunday after Trinity July 26, 2015 “Beware of False Prophets” Matthew 7:15-23 Click here to listen to…
Whether four thousand gathered in a desolate place, or a few hundred (or even two or three) gathered around Jesus to hear Him…
Part III, Article IV. Of the Gospel. We will now return to the Gospel, which not merely in one way gives us counsel…