On October 31, 2017, the pipe organs in the Castle Church at Wittenberg, Germany breathed and lifted their voices heralding the Five-Hundredth Anniversary of the Lutheran Reformation. The organs were in excellent voice, fulfilling their purpose—breathing, singing, and praising Christ with God’s people—as they have done for more than half a millennium.
The film captures rootedness in contrast to our shifting world where transience has been deemed necessary, novelty is called virtue, and uprootedness is assumed.
Madson’s sermons are not literary works or academic treatises. They are pastoral. But he shows great facility with the English language. He makes use of literary allusions. Neither flowery nor drab, he preaches in a lively, engaging style.
Why are we at the point that transgenderism, LBGTQ+, and this sexual revolution are so infallibly prominent and protected by federal law such as the Respect For Marriage Act? In The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self, Carl Trueman correctly shows that this didn’t just happen by chance.
American author Willa Cather would like us to read her 1918 novel My Ántonia with classical eyes. In a revelatory passage, the narrator meditates upon a line from the Georgics, the Roman Virgil’s poem about agriculture and rural living.
Philipp Nicolai received an excellent education. He entered Gymnasium in Dortmund when he was 15 years old and was instructed by the very men who had been first to leave the Roman church in Dortmund and join the Reformation.
Sebastian Schmidt (1617–96) was the foremost Hebrew scholar and exegete of the period of Lutheran Orthodoxy. He was a product of and testament to the excellence of classical Lutheran education.
Dear conscience, rest! For thou art blessed, / At peace through Jesus’ merit.
With our help, in any case through our negligence, the unbelievers have almost exclusively taken the press into their service.
The following statement, written by Rev. John Hill, President of the Wyoming District of the LCMS, responds to H.R. 8404, known among us as the “Disrespect for Marriage Act,” which repealed the “Defense of Marriage Act” and rejected God’s definition of marriage as the union of one man and one woman for life.
