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When Prayer Goes Wrong

Politicians find it expedient to give an occasional nod to God, whoever or whatever they conceive the deity to be.

Come, Lord Jesus

When I became a Lutheran, one of the few things about my new church that I did not love was the Common Table Prayer.

How Does Faith Give Freedom?

In this next section of The Freedom of a Christian, Luther unpacks his assertion that faith alone justifies the sinner before God.

O Emmanuel!

And so we come to the last Vespers of Advent. Tonight the Great “O” Antiphon will be “O Emmanuel,” for tomorrow we will celebrate …

O Rex Gentium!

“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.”

O Oriens!

There is a darkness about this world. And this darkest day of the year is but an image of that deeper darkness.

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