The presenter made the following remarks by way of introduction: It is generally granted that there should be unity in the Christian Church. The lament over the divisions of the Church is universal. There have always been efforts to create unity, particularly in recent times. We would rejoice over these efforts and regard our era [...]
Why Should we Very Faithfully Provide for Our Synodical Teaching Institutions? Sermon by Dr. Franz Pieper 1905 God is very merciful. God is merciful in all his works. God gives food to all flesh and fodder to cattle. He also takes to heart the physical misery of mankind. Thus when the Son of God walked [...]
My lowest point – one of my lowest – was a collapse which I experienced after the war at the destroyed Main Train Station in Munich after a very heavey day of work full of agitation by the [Allied] military government – I was at that time Pro-rektor [of Erlangen University] – without eating and [...]
There is another series of Scripture passages which must not be overlooked when the question is raised whether Scripture and the Word of God are one and the same or not. These are the passages which state that all events in the world are directed by the Word of Scripture. All that has taken place [...]
Christ the wonderful person – the God-Man – performed an equally wonderful work (‘ergon‘). The work to which He was appointed and which He willingly assumed is the salvation of mankind. Matt 18:11: “The Son of Man is come to save that which was lost” (Luke 19:10; 1 Tim. 1:15). All that Christ, the God-Man, [...]
The new Turks preach tolerance, specifically citing the Koran. The Associated Press reported in early March [1927] from Constantinople: “Turkey is quietly self educating itself in religious tolerance. Although the regulation was not published, it was well known that the government has instructed the directors of all Turkish public school religious education programs to observe [...]
The next question is how faith, the only means of appropriating salvation, is produced in man. Scripture answers: Man cannot produce faith, neither in whole nor in part. Natural man is not only absolutely unable to comprehend the Gospel (“he cannot know it”) but he also opposes it (“it is foolishness unto him”), 1 Cor. [...]
God ordained the means by which He gives men the infallible assurance of His gracious will toward them; in other words, He both confers on men the remission of sins merited by Christ and works faith in the proffered remission or, where faith already exists, strengthens it. The Church has appropriately called these divine ordinances the [...]
Fourth Sunday in Lent (1891) Translation by David Juhl [John 6:1-15] Even many people who want to know nothing about Christianity would put up with Christianity to enter into the kingdom of heaven and to have His glorious possessions if no conversion, renunciation, and denial of the world and its possessions were demanded of them. [...]
