Chastity takes place throughout the entire life of the believer. It encompasses not simply the acts occurring in the bedroom, but the life we live together and before the world, in the clothes we wear, the jokes we tell, even the movies we watch.
The January issue of The Lutheran Witness discusses the “Chaste and Decent Life” to which Christians are called, in spite of a culture which has rejected it.
Christian certainty can be summarized in terms of the Six Chief Parts of Martin Luther’s Small Catechism.
Certain texts you read at certain times every year. Every Advent, I revisit St. Athanasius’s On the Incarnation.
And so we come to the last Vespers of Advent. Tonight the Great “O” Antiphon will be “O Emmanuel,” for tomorrow we will celebrate …
“You are a king?” Pilate said. “You have said so,” our Lord replied (John 18:37; Matt. 27:11). He was always a tad reluctant about that title “King.”
There is a darkness about this world. And this darkest day of the year is but an image of that deeper darkness.
It is not fanatical for pastors and members to desire the weekly opportunity to commune.
Revelation and Isaiah are dancing in the background of this name for our Lord. But the thought is clearly the opening of paradise, the door that was shut in the fall.
The Root of Jesse? Is our Lord not the flower of Jesse’s stem (Isaiah 11:1)? He is both root and flower, the Alpha and the Omega
Luther’s translation of the Bible into German is celebrated for making the Word of God accessible to ordinary people.
Tonight, we will recall that not only is our Lord the Logos, the logic of the universe, but He is at one with Yahweh, with Adonai.