Weekends with Bach BWV 62 Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland II First Sunday in Advent. Poet unknown. 1. Martin Luther, verse 1 of the German adaptation of Veni redemptor gentium, 1524 (Wackernagel, III, #16); 2. based loosely on verses 2-3; 3. based on verses 4-5; 4. based on verse 6; 5. based on verse 7. [...]
Franz Friday Via “The Glorious Blessing of Brotherly Fellowship in Faith,” Thesis I All Christians are in inner, invisible fellowship with one another, because through the working of the Holy Spirit they altogether believe on Christ as their Savior and through this faith are bound together with Christ as the only Head of the church [...]
Via lcms.org, here is Jerry Kieschnick’s pastoral letter to pastors of The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod for January. January 27, 2010 Dear Brothers in Christ, Americans are giving generously for relief effort in the aftermath of the Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti. Donations have exceeded the amounts given immediately following the 2004 Asian tsunamis and the [...]
Thursdays with Iwand Via The Righteousness of Faith according to Luther, p. 45-46 …wherever grace and forgiveness are proclaimed in the present tense, even in the Old Testament, the Gospel is present. For the Gospel does not bring a new conception of God, a new morality, or a new religion. Rather, the Newness that it [...]
Here is the handout from Bob and Cathy Mattson for the Fourth Sunday in Epiphany. 10 Epiphany 4th Sunday
Via WordAlone NEWS RELEASE Jan. 27, 1010 For Information: WordAlone: Tom Walker, vice president. Email: thw1953@gmail.com. Cell: 712-389-1735 Lutheran CORE: Mark Chavez, director. Email: lcore@popp.net. Cell: 717-823-7739 LCMC: Bill Sullivan, service coordinator. Email: wtsullivan@sbcglobal.net. Cell: 734-788-2820 Leaders of Lutheran groups meet, pledge cooperation and support by Betsy Carlson, WordAlone editor MINNEAPOLIS, MN – Leaders of Lutheran [...]
Wednesdays with Augustine Via Augustine’s Enchiridion, Chapters 1 & 2. The Enchiridion is among the latest books of Augustine. It was written after the death of Jerome, which occurred Sept. 30, 420; for he alludes in ch. 87 to Jerome “of blessed memory” (sanctoe memorioe Hieronymus presbyter). It is addressed to Laurentius, in answer to [...]
The Lord Will Make A Way Somehow (Written by Thomas Dorsey, and sung by Marion Williams) Listen @YouTube Verse 1: Like a ship that’s tossed and driven, battered by an angry sea; when the storms of life are raging, and their fury falls on me. I wonder what I have done, that makes this race [...]
Tuesdays with Forde Via On Being a Theologian of the Cross p. 42 Thesis 7. The works of the righteous would be mortal sins if they would not be feared as mortal sins by the righteous themselves out of pious fear of God. The point here is that when we have no fear of the [...]
