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October 14, 2026
Fluegge to serve as LHF executive director
Lutheran Heritage Foundation, an LCMS Recognized Service Organization, is dedicated to translating and publishing books of the Lutheran faith in the languages of the world.
October 13, 2026
How I Rediscovered Oct. 31 as Reformation Day
What could be better than celebrating Reformation Day in a joyful, educational and unmistakably Lutheran way?
May 13, 2017
The Four Holy Men: Albrecht Dürer's Confession of Faith
Both Lutherans and Roman Catholics claim Albrecht Dürer as their own. So what was he? Lutheran or Roman Catholic
March 13, 2017
Knight, Death, and the Devil: Albrecht Dürer's Mystery Man
Who is the Rider? Although Albrecht Dürer's "Knight, Death, and the Devil" has been acclaimed as one of Europe's greatest masterwork engravings since its publication in 1513, it has also been one of the most provocative pieces of art in the past 500 years.
January 5, 2017
Christ Among the Doctors: Albrecht Dürer's 12 Year Old Messiah
Faces, hands, and books swirl around the divine Child in Albrecht Dürer's oil painting Christ Among the Doctors. The artist's rendition of Luke 2:41-52 is far from a typical, placid, generic temple scene!
November 15, 2016
The Four Horsemen of Albrecht Dürer
From Albrecht Dürer's Apocalypse series, this masterful woodcut illustrates Revelation 6:1-8, the release of the four horsemen.
September 16, 2016
Dürer's Praying Hands: An Artist's Devotion
Though the Praying Hands is a unique icon in Western art that has transcended the sacred and entered the world of pop culture, the 500 year old work is only a preliminary drawing for a much larger work.
May 19, 2016
Adoration of the Holy Trinity: Dürer's Vision
In his oil painting, "Adoration of the Holy Trinity," Albrecht Dürer gives you, the viewer, the opportunity to see a dazzling vision of Heaven with your very own eyes.
April 6, 2016
Dürer's Small Passion: Dawn to Dusk with Christ in Three Panels
In the Small Passion Albrecht Dürer devotes three woodcuts to the Scriptural accounts of Easter day enabling us, with our own eyes, to see holy events as if they are happening right now. He places you, me, and himself as participants in salvation's narrative as he draws us into the resurrection of Christ.
January 6, 2016
Albrecht Dürer's "Adoration of the Magi"
In 1517 when Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Albrecht Dürer's magnificent painting, Adoration of the Magi, hung just inside the church mere feet away!
December 14, 2017
Smalcald Article Study: Baptism
For this topic, there is really only one question to be considered: What is the importance of this sentence: “Baptism is nothing other than God’s Word in the water, commanded by His institution”?