When a theologian is asked to yield and make concessions in order that peace may at last be established in the Church, but refuses to do so even in a single point of doctrine, such an action looks to human reason like intolerable stubbornness, yea, like downright malice. That is the reason why such theologians [...]
My friends, the first fact we notice in our text about Peter is his exceeding diligence in his earthly calling. At that time he had already been converted to Christ for almost a year, but since Christ had not yet called him into the office of preaching, he not only had remained in his calling [...]
The error of denying preachers the power to forgive sins is greater than one might think. It contradicts the clearest words of Christ. After his resurrection Christ says to the apostles in our text, “Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.” Quite a [...]
Lord Jesus, hot was the conflict which once our fathers had to fight; but glorious was the victory which you granted them. Therefore, we today joyfully extol and praise you. For what our fathers once had to gain by fighting, your precious pure saving Word, that today is still their children’s, our precious inheritance. However, [...]
But, beloved, a second sign of having the true faith is this, that it is joined to a living experience of the heart. St. Paul points us to this when he says to the Corinthians in our text, “Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have [...]
Scripture text: I Corinthians 15:1-10. Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of [...]
My Friends: — A person may pretend to be a Christian while in reality he is not. As long as he is in this condition, he is quite content with his knowledge of the mere outlines of the Christian doctrines. Everything beyond that, he says, is for pastors and theologians. To perceive as clearly as [...]
After the apostle had said in our text that God has made him able to hold the office of the New Testament, he adds: “Not of the letter, but of the spirit; for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so [...]
As you have heard, the Apostle Paul in the Epistle just read praises the office of the Gospel ministry, which he holds, as an office of boundless glory. He does this not from a vain, inordinate desire for fame, but because many false teachers had come among the Corinthians who had tried to belittle his [...]
