Thou the cross didst gladly suffer / And didst tear my note of debt, / Else Death’s sentence I were under, / On the path to hell were set.
The Iliad is a book-length poem about a war between the Mycenaean Greeks, called “Achaeans,” and a certain city-state on the western coast of Asia
The die was now cast for a new kind of Protestantism no longer shackled to the strict church structures of the past. Now preaching was for the farmer plowing his field, the miner tooling away with pick and shovel, or the street urchin on a corner in Philadelphia.
This sermon is part of a series in which John Arndt preaches on all of the Ten Commandments, every line of the Apostles Creed, and every petition of the Lord’s Prayer.
The Reformation was itself a conservative movement. It dispensed with only those things that corrupted the Church, and it kept all traditions that came down from the apostolic age, basing all things on what is most ancient: the Bible.
Arius put his false teaching to music, and that false teaching continues to be chanted in our own day.
Martin Luther himself held a high but circumscribed view of reason, as did Francis Pieper centuries later.
The discipline that a Christian child receives is a cross since it is painful and ultimately from the loving hand of the heavenly Father. It is God who gives this cross to the child by means of the parents, and like all crosses, it is bearable in faith.
