Seeing Is Not Believing
In the three year lectionary, the Gospel text this year for the Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost is John 6:35-51. Let us observe how…
In the three year lectionary, the Gospel text this year for the Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost is John 6:35-51. Let us observe how…
Lutherans should celebrate the 500th anniversary of 1520 as a much more significant event than publication of the Ninety-Five Theses in 1517. The Indulgence Controversy and…
Introduction You hear questions about Baptism. You have your own questions. Many of these questions are common and are asked repeatedly. Many…
The Third Sunday after Epiphany January 22, 2017 “God’s Will, God’s Word, and Faith” Matthew 8:1-13 Click here to…
In my previous post (Luther at Augsburg) I described Martin Luther’s meeting with Cardinal Cajetan at Augsburg in October 1518. There Luther had…
Faith does not spring from nature, nor from our own reason, strength, or will. The Holy Spirit creates faith by the Word and…
In a previous post, I described how Dr. Luther recognized St. Paul’s pattern of teaching good works and virtues after the preaching of…
While Martin Luther had formulated the theology of justification from 1515 to 1519, his theological opponents within the papal court called for an…
In the worship wars, one of the alleged reasons for abandoning the historic liturgy is to make worship relevant. We want application of…
The Baptism of Our Lord St. Matthew 3:13-17 Then Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan to be baptized by him….
Holly Marie Scheer recently wrote an article titled, “Why ‘Mary Did You Know’ Is The Most Biblically Illiterate Christmas Tune.” The digest at…
I am consistently amazed at the visceral reaction of those who deny the efficacy of Baptism to any talk about how Baptism is…
Good people go to heaven and bad people go to hell. Jesus told a story about a rich man and a poor man. …
Sermon for the Fourth Sunday in Advent (20 December A+D 2015) Pastor Dan Voth Our Savior’s Lutheran Church, Minot, ND Trinity Lutheran Church, Tolley,…
Sermon for the Third Sunday in Advent (13 December A+D 2015) The Rev. Dr. John W. Sias Pastor, Mount Calvary Lutheran Church, Colstrip,…
In Junior Confirmation, we read through the Old Testament. We didn’t get very far before I was having trouble. In Genesis 5, we…
Jesus never said, “Let go and let God”, He said, “Repent and believe in the Gospel.” There’s a big difference. Both “let go…
“Consider Abraham: ‘He believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.’ Understand, then, that those who believe are children of Abraham….
Despite all of the emphasis Scripture puts on life together, it’s really common for Christians to see faith individualistically. Of course you can’t…
This blog article, “How Lutherans Implicitly Deny Faith Alone in Christ Alone,” showed up in my Facebook news feed a couple days ago….
I was raised Roman Catholic. Now I’m a Lutheran pastor. But I didn’t just leave the Roman Catholic Church because I happened to…
My pastor has been teaching on Paul’s epistle to the Galatians for the past several months in Bible study. As a good Lutheran…
Are parents- especially Christian ones- brainwashing their children? Dr. Chester M. Pierce, Emeritus Professor of Education at Harvard Medical School and Psychiatry, thinks so….
Thank God for the Gospel! As we celebrate this day of Thanksgiving, it is meet, right, and salutary to give thanks to…
(Luther, “The Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector”) Sometimes the most simple and obvious things are also the most profound. We…