Ministers
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Lent 2 • Romans 5:1–11 • March 1, 2015
Suffering does not save, but those who have found salvation and peace in Christ can expect the hostility of Satan in the midst of daily…
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God’s Word Produces Faith and Fruit Reflections from Luther’s Understanding of the Sermon on the Mount
In his comments on the Sermon on the Mount in 1538 he made clear that the community’s light was to shine with good works, which…
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Proper 24 • Isaiah 45:1–7 • October 19, 2014
The clear point is that “God is God, and we are not,” nor is any human government. When we look at the world around us,…
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Epiphany 5 • 1 Corinthians 9:16–23 • February 8, 2015
In a portion of the Collect the worshipper joins in praying that God the loving Father would enable him to do those things that are…
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Lent 4 • Ephesians 2:1–10 • March 15, 2015
Secure in our relationship with God (by grace through faith – first kind of righteousness) we are empowered by God to live as God’s people…
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Reformation Day • Revelation 14:6–7 • October 26, 2014
Our God, our “ever present help in distress” is present with us in Christ who holds us tightly and sustains us with his Spirit in…
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THEOLOGIAN OF SIN AND GRACE
This volume is a must for anyone seeking an understanding of the transition from the Wittenberg Reformation to seventeenth-century Lutheran theology as well as the…
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Lent 1 • James 1:12–18 • February 22, 2015
We need to let James be James. We ought not try to make him sound like Paul, or John, or Peter, or anyone else.
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WHO IS THE CHURCH?: An Ecclesiology for the Twenty-First Century. By Cheryl M. Peterson
Peterson appropriates insights from communion ecclesiology, the missio Dei movement, and the Lutheran tradition, particularly Luther’s Large Catechism, in order to offer an account of…