Month: November 2014

“The greatest barrier I have met is the almost total absence from the minds of my audience of any sense of sin… The early Christian preachers could assume in their hearers, whether Jews, Metuentes, or Pagans, a sense of...

    Though we see, hear, understand and must confess that Christian life is faith in God and love to our needy neighbor, yet there is no progress. This one clings to his religious ceremonies and his own works, that one...

 Luther imagined Jesus giving a speech – “Banish your high expectations, look not to my person and state, but to the works I do. Worldly lords, because they rule by force, must be accompanied by rich, high, healthy,...

I used the service of Farewell and Godspeed in the Lutheran Service Book Agenda the other night.  It is published by Concordia Publishing House and if you are  a pastor and don’t have this book I recommend that you get...

 Matthew 11 – Jesus answered and said to them, “Go and tell John the things which you hear and see: 5 The blind see and the lame walk; the lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear; the dead are raised up and the poor have the...