Month: July 2017

Luther was asked why he took up the job of writing a commentary on Genesis. “I undertook the work in order that I might be found at death among that “little flock” and of those “babes,” out of whose...

In the introduction to his commentary of Genesis Luther quotes from an early church father St. Gregory who wrote a commentary on Job, and Luther in his inimitable style gives us this gem. “According to Gregory, Scripture...

We have a LCMS Missionary in Grand Forks this Summer attending the Summer Institute of Linguistcs, the Rev. Doug Thompson. Doug was a parish pastor in ND for two years and then was called to ministry in Montana where he spent...

I thought about writing a book about writing sermons.  It takes a certain amount of hubris to think that you can write a book to begin with, and then there is a certain amount of vanity that thinks anyone would read it.  Then...

What God commands us to do (the imperative) is based upon what he has done, is doing or will do (the indicatives).  Example – Philippians 2:12b-13 . . .work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who...