Fall 2023

Fall 2023 (Issue 10)

Banquet with Boethius: Right Pursuits and Right Education

Rev. Andrew Richard

Do not seek how he will live a long life here, but how he will live a boundless and endless life there. Give him the great things, not the little things.

The Lutheran Missal Project

Rev. Evan Scamman

The ancient series of lessons and prayers referenced by the Book of Concord is the Church’s historic Lectionary, a series of appointed Bible readings (lections), psalm verses, and prayers to be used within the Divine Service for nearly every day of the Church Year.

But it’s Christ’s Left Hand, not Everybody’s and Nobody’s!

Rev. Dr. John Stephenson

We need to beware of picturing the area governed by God’s Left Hand as simply those wide tracts of space where the world ‘does its own thing’ as the Church looks unconcernedly on.

Banquet with Boethius: Right Pursuits and Right Education

Rev. Andrew Richard

Do not seek how he will live a long life here, but how he will live a boundless and endless life there. Give him the great things, not the little things.

The Lutheran Missal Project

Rev. Evan Scamman

But it’s Christ’s Left Hand, not Everybody’s and Nobody’s!

Rev. Dr. John Stephenson

We need to beware of picturing the area governed by God’s Left Hand as simply those wide tracts of space where the world ‘does its own thing’ as the Church looks unconcernedly on.

The Christenlehre

Rev. Ryan Loeslie

Even for experienced Christians, nothing gets lost easier than the simplest Catechism truths. Christian knowledge is no such thing, that a man can avail himself of it once for all and then never lose it.

Of a Faithful Pastor

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My conscience is at rest, and I rejoice / That through my shepherd speaks my Shepherd’s voice!

Getting to Know the Fathers: Athanasius

Rev. David Kind

That the ordinances which have been preserved in the Churches from old time until now, may not be lost in our days, and the trust which has been committed to us required at our hands; rouse yourselves, brethren, as being stewards of the mysteries of God, and seeing them now seized upon by others.

Defy the Old Dragon: Johann Franck, Hymnist

Rev. Jacob Sutton

As with nearly all the great Lutheran hymnists, Franck took up the pen in times of suffering and cross bearing.

Neumeister, Libretto for the Third Sunday after Trinity

Rev. Mark Preus

Come ye! Come ye! Come, all, / Who from so many falls into sin / Wounded, weak, and trembling stand, / We want to go to Jesus. / He heals all wounds.

Review: Mythology by Edith Hamilton

Rev. John Henry III

For several generations of English readers, Hamilton’s Mythology has proven helpful in both sorting the various stories into their proper places and order and also integrating them into the single story that many have known and loved in the West for centuries.

The Oldest Image of King Jesus

Rev. John Henry III and Rev. Andrew Richard

The artist has given us a taste of what we desire, inspiring us to press on toward the goal, to go to church, to listen to God’s Word, to love our neighbor and not the things of this world. May the Lord preserve us steadfast in the true faith to life everlasting.