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February 28, 2016
Luther on the Family
Clearly Luther saw marriage and the estate of the family as important, but what does this mean for us? Seeing how important this was for Luther first of all gives us an insight as to how we should encourage people to view marriage and the family in our time.
January 19, 2016
Luther's Translation of the Bible
Among his many contributions to the church, Luther also transformed and ennobled the German language through his translation of the Bible.
January 12, 2016
Luther's 'The Babylonian Captivity of the Church'
The Babylonian Captivity of the Church appeared in print less than a week before the papal bull against Luther reached Wittenberg in October, 1520. Both works were being prepared at the same time: while Rome was working to prosecute Luther’s heresy trail, Luther was putting the Roman sacramental system on trial.
January 3, 2016
Reflections on Luther's Flood Prayer
Theology will always lead to prayer. We listen to God and then echo His words back to Him in prayer. If you want to know what someone believes, listen to the way that they pray.
December 11, 2017
Luther's Time at the Wartburg
Wartburg Castle was a hunting castle that belonged to the ducal family of Saxony. To the present day, it lies in the Thuringian forest in north-central Germany.
October 7, 2017
The Large and Small Catechisms of Dr. Luther
The Large and Small Catechisms of Dr. Luther were born of pastoral necessity. In 1528, Luther and his colleagues visited the congregations in Saxony to assess their spiritual health. Luther was horrified.
August 8, 2017
How The Formula of Concord Came to Be
The Formula of Concord has two parts, the Epitome and the Solid Declaration. Together, these comprise the final document of the Book of Concord (1580), or the Confessions of the Evangelical Lutheran Church.
July 8, 2017
The Marriage Booklet in the Catechism
The culture increasingly maintains that marriage is man’s institution. Thus marriage can be defined according to the shifting winds of popular opinion, and ultimately government mandate. This is to rob marriage of any real objective meaning.
June 26, 2017
Preparation for the Sacrament: Christian Questions with Their Answers
St. Paul writes, “Let a person examine himself, then, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup” (1 Cor. 11:28; ESV). Why?
June 23, 2017
Sources of the Augsburg Confession
Philipp Melanchthon composed the Augsburg Confession in preparation for the Diet of Augsburg in 1530. The emperor Charles V called the diet in order to resolve the religious issues that were divided the empire.
May 22, 2017
The Resurrection of Christians in the Lutheran Confessions
In this life, we need the church, where our sins are daily and richly forgiven for the sake of Christ. The Holy Spirit crucifies the Old Adam and the body of sin every day of our lives by daily contrition and repentance.
February 23, 2017
The Table of Duties in the Small Catechism
When Martin Luther prepared the text of the Small Catechism, he included a list of duties that people in various callings and stations in life have, as both a command and blessing from God.
July 24, 2016
The Apology of the Augsburg Confession
The presentation of the Augsburg Confession was a foundational moment in the Lutheran Church. On June 25, 1530, the confession of the Lutheran estates of the Holy Roman Empire was read before Emperor Charles V at the Diet of Augsburg.
June 25, 2016
The Presentation of the Augsburg Confession
The Augsburg Confession is comprised 28 articles. Of these articles, 21 represent a positive presentation of the Christian faith as taught in the Lutheran Churches while the last seven article cover suggested reforms of certain practices of the medieval Church.
April 22, 2016
Catechism Study: The Lord's Prayer
As recorded in Luke 11, the disciples ask Jesus to teach them how to pray, and he does not respond with comments about posture or attitude or sentiment, but with specific words that serve as a foundation on which all Christian prayer is built.
April 1, 2016
The Doctrine of the Church in the Lutheran Confessions
In 1521 Thomas Murner, one of Luther’s early Catholic opponents, attacked Luther’s view of the church, accusing him of “building a church the way that Plato builds a city”