Do not, therefore, O beloved soul, devote thy highest thoughts to this life, but rather, in mind, aspire to the joys of that life which is to come. Contrast the very brief space of time allotted us in this life with the infinite and never-ending ages of eternity, and it will sufficiently appear how foolish [...]
BWV 41 Jesu, nun sei gepreiset New Year’s Day (Feast of the Circumcision) Poet unknown. 1. Johannes Herman, verse 1 of the hymn, 1593; 2-5. based freely on verse 2; 6. 6th and final verse of the hymn. 1 January 1725; again after 1732 (Neumann Hb). BG 10; NBA I/4. 1. Chorus [Verse 1] (S, [...]
O BLESSED Jesus, be Thou indeed a Jesus to me; for Thy holy name’s sake have compassion upon me! My life condemns me, but the name of Jesus will save me. For Thy name’s sake deal with me according to Thy name; and since Thou art a true and great Saviour, Thou wilt surely regard [...]
Though consubstantial with us, the human nature of Christ differs from ours in the possession of certain characteristics, to which Scripture calls particular attention. 1.) THE HUMAN NATURE OF CHRIST CAME INTO EXISTENCE THROUGH THE OPERATION OF THE HOLY GHOST While all human men receive their human nature by natural descent from father and mother, [...]
The LCMS and ELCA are not in altar and pulpit fellowship with each other because of doctrinal disagreements. Lately, those differences have centered on the 2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly’s adoption of a social statement on human sexuality and changes to ministry policies that include making it possible for those in lifelong, publicly accountable, monogamous same-gender [...]
Luke 2:40) Now the child kept on growing and kept on gaining strength by being filled with wisdom; and God’s grace was on it. It is impossible for us to penetrate the mystery if this development in Jesus – body and soul untouched by sin, unchecked and unretarded by any result of sin, his mind [...]
This great work was, indeed, supremely worthy of the goodness of God. A king who has founded a city, so far from neglecting it when through the carelessness of the inhabitants it is attacked by robbers, avenges it and saves it from destruction, having regard rather to his own honor than to the people’s neglect. [...]
CALL to mind, O faithful soul, the wonderful grace of God bestowed upon thee in holy baptism. Baptism is the washing of regeneration (Titus iii. 5); therefore he who hath been spiritually washed in the laver of baptism is no longer held, body and soul, under the power of a carnal nature, but because he hath [...]
But how then are we to regard the not-preached God? How then is God not preached to be related to God preached? This is the most critical point in the discussion. God must therefore be left to himself in his own majesty, for in this regard we have nothing to do with him, nor has [...]
