Mondays with Martin Via Luther’s Table Talk, CCXLI The Holy Ghost has two offices: first, he is a Spirit of grace, that makes God gracious unto us, and receive us as his acceptable children, for Christ’s sake. Secondly, he is a Spirit of prayer, that prays for us, and for the whole world, to the [...]
Mondays with Martin Via Luther’s Church Postil of 1522, taken from volume I:324-367 of The Sermons of Martin Luther, published by Baker Book House (Grand Rapids, MI). It was originally published in 1905 in English by Lutherans in All Lands Press (Minneapolis, MN), as The Precious and Sacred Writings of Martin Luther, vol. 10. The [...]
Mondays with Martin Via Luther’s Church Postil of 1521 [This sermon is taken from volume VI:93-112 of The Sermons of Martin Luther, published by Baker Book House (Grand Rapids, MI). It was originally published in 1908 in english by Lutherans in All Lands Press (Minneapolis, MN), as The Precious and Sacred Writings of Martin Luther, [...]
Mondays with Martin Brethren, “have this mind among yourselves, which you have in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of god, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped” [Phil. 2:5-6] [1] There are two kinds of Christian righteousness, just as man’s sin is of two kinds. The first [...]
Mondays with Martin An excerpt from Luther’s Epiphany Sermon Matthew 2:1-12: Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in [...]
Mondays with Martin “The German Mass and Order of Divine Service, Jan. 1526″ by Martin Luther from Documents Illustrative of the Continental Reformation, B.J. Kidd, ed., (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1911), pp. 193-202. (i) The Preface of Martin Luther. Above all things, I most affectionately and for God’s sake beseech all, who see or desire to [...]
“On that day the Lord their God will save them, for they are the flock of His people.” (Zecheriah 9:16) Through the Gospel God will gather into one faith, as into one group or flock, those who have been scattered throughout the world and seperated by various ways of teaching. For the Jews also were [...]
Mondays with Martin Via The Bondage of the Will Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead… (I Peter 1:3) In a word, these declarations of yours amount [...]
Another one for Mondays with Martin From the beginning of the world, Christ has been preached and believed. Christ has been preached from the beginning of the world until now and has been believed by all the holy patriarchs and prophets, namely, that Christ would be both true Man, as the woman’s promised offspring, and [...]
