The Oil of Grace
Dear Brothers, Five foolish. Five wise. There's a sobering warning aimed at me in those numbers in Jesus' parable. If only Jesus' warning in the gospel for Saints Triumphant hadn't been spoken in the ...
Dear Brothers, Five foolish. Five wise. There's a sobering warning aimed at me in those numbers in Jesus' parable. If only Jesus' warning in the gospel for Saints Triumphant hadn't been spoken in the ...
Dear Brothers, "A few dollars." That's the NIV84's footnote in Sunday's gospel suggesting a contemporary equivalent of a 100 denarii debt. Doesn't that miss the point? 100 denarii was 100 days wages for a day ...
With a pile of “must-reads” littering my study and another pile on my nightstand, very few books make it to my “read it again and again and again” pile. Dying to Live: The Power of ...
Volume 18, Number 1. In this new volume, Pastor Tom Westra begins a series on self-evaluation based on a survey of WELS Pastors. In addition, End Times thoughts are shared by Pastor Westra and Pastor ...
“[Peters] has taken every aspect of what is covered in the catechisms and enriched it with comments from Luther’s lectures, sermons, and other works, to show how what is in the catechisms is just the ...
Dear Brothers, Sometimes, small words make all the difference! In Sunday's gospel, the parable of the weeds (Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43), there are two small words to which I pray the Spirit enables me to cling! ...
When I was in college I remember being told, “The first five times you read the psalms, you’ll realize how little you really know. The next five times you read the psalms you’ll start to ...
Content of Deeper Places Premise In Jacoby's introduction, he writes: ...most people struggle to attain anything more than a remote and abstract idea about God...It is little wonder, then, that we have no emotional connection ...
There are three sections to this volume. In the first section, Peters discusses Luther’s understanding of the sacraments. Some highlights are: Discussions of the early church fathers between the active “I baptize” or passive “is ...