Why the Nations Rage
The nations are raging, the peoples are plotting and the rulers are taking counsel together. Hostility against Christianity is intensifying.
The nations are raging, the peoples are plotting and the rulers are taking counsel together. Hostility against Christianity is intensifying.
On one occasion, Jesus took Peter, James and John up a high mountain to pray.
Luther warned against speculating about God apart from His incarnation in Jesus Christ.
The tabernacle signified God’s presence among His people Israel. Now, we look to Jesus to see the place of God’s presence among His people.
In the December Lutheran Witness, read how Christ’s incarnation was prefigured throughout the Old Testament and continues to be the source of greatest gifts today.
God provided blood atonement for sinful Israel in the tabernacle. But here in the manger lies the new and better tabernacle, built not with poles, rings and ram’s skins, but with human flesh, born of Mary.
Old books help us see things differently. It’s not to say that old books are inherently better, but they are different.
This strong little song depicts the church on earth — the Church Militant — confident in the face of growing opposition.
Weekly communion was not widely practiced for a significant part of the twentieth century in The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS).
Over the last few months, we have talked about problems that afflict us — half-heartedness, slackness, falsehoods, fragmentation, failure to preach the Gospel.
There are no accidents in God’s plan for our salvation. He planned and executed everything perfectly for the salvation of mankind.
In “The Freedom of a Christian,” Luther lays out the central Reformation assertion that faith in Christ and not works of the law justifies sinful human beings in the sight of God.