Archive for November 2015
An All-important Lesson: How to prepare for Death.
TO READ IN BOOK FORMAT, OR TO PRINT THIS ARTICLE, CLICK ON THIS LINK – 8-An-All-important-Lesson- From Luther by the Reverend H. W. Wehrs “I. Because death is a departure from the world and all its affairs, it is necessary for a man to make arrangement for his money and property in order to remove…
Read MoreAdolf Hoenecke, WELS, and the Ministry
To read in PDF book format, to copy, or to download, click here – Adolf Hoenecke, the WELS, and the Ministry In the English translation of Adolf Hoenecke’s Dogmatics one of the three translators made this remark at the beginning of the section on the doctrine of the ministry: “The doctrine of the ministry was…
Read MoreThe Importance of possessing a Guilty Conscience
TO READ IN BOOK FORMAT, OR TO PRINT THIS ARTICLE, CLICK ON THIS LINK – 13-The-Importance-of-possessing-a-guilty- Psalm 51:10-12: “Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me! Do not cast me away from your presence, and do not take your Holy Spirit from me! Restore to me the joy…
Read MoreA Sermon in Memory of Paul Edward Kretzmann
TO READ IN BOOK FORMAT, OR TO PRINT THIS ARTICL, CLICK ON THIS LINK – 14-A-Sermon-in-memory-of-P-E-Kretzmann Psalm 112:6: The righteous will be in everlasting remembrance. Following Scripture, a genuine Lutheran congregation will not give extraordinary exaltation to its departed members by eulogizing them at their funerals, for instance, or much worse, by praying to them…
Read MoreA Fourth of July Sermon
TO READ IN BOOK FORMAT, OR TO PRINT THIS ARTICLE, CLICK ON THIS LINK – 15-A-4th-of-july-Sermon- Jeremiah 29:7: Seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray to the Lord for it; for in its peace you will have peace! Until rather late in the history of…
Read MoreThe Lord defends a powerless Nation
TO READ IN BOOK FORMAT, OR TO PRINT THIS ARTICLE, CLICK ON THIS LINK – 16-The-Lord-defends-a-powerless-Nation-Jehosaphat 2nd Chronicles 19:4-20:32 About nine hundred years before the birth at Bethlehem of Jesus Christ, mankind’s Savior and God, there lived a king by the name of Jehoshaphat. His capital was Jerusalem. Spiritually, he was a believer in the…
Read MoreWhy would You need the Gospel?
TO READ IN BOOK FORMAT, OR TO PRINT THIS ARTICLE, CLICK O N THIS LINK – 17-Why-would-you-need-the-gospel At the beginning of creation God had created man and woman pure and holy for the purpose of having them live with him in heaven. To this end God created this world for man to live in temporarily, in…
Read MoreWhat does It mean to Repent and to Believe!
TO READ IN BOOK FORMAT, OR TO PRINT THIS ARTICLE, CLICK ON THIS LINK – 18-What-does-it-mean-to-Repent-and-believe What does it mean “to repent”? It means to have a change of mind about sin. By nature man does not consider the awful damnableness of his life. He flatters himself into thinking that he lives a well-behaved life as…
Read MoreMost Americans do not know or act their Faith, Gallup says.
TO READ IN BOOK FORMAT, OR TO PRINT THIS ARTICLE, CLICK ON THIS LINK – 19-Most-Americans-do-not-know-or-act-their-Faith “Most Americans who say they are Christians don’t know the basic teachings of the faith and don’t act significantly different than non-Christians in their daily lives, according pollster George Gallup. “The researcher, an Episcopalian layman, discussed the gap between what…
Read MoreWhy are the Lutheran Churches today walking by Sight, and not by Faith?
It is because they refuse to believe the evidence. “Show me!” This is the unofficial motto of the state of Missouri. This pithy challenge means that “I will not believe it until I would see it.” That is to say, “I will only admit a fact or an event to be true if I would…
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