Carolsfeld’s Bible illustrations make for excellent devotional material, especially when paired with the corresponding Scripture reading.
People are overwhelmed unto death by forces larger than their own lives, but which also include their own virtues and vices. That’s the classical meaning of tragedy, it happens in real life all the time, and Christians should meditate deeply upon it.
Be my prayer, as day is ending,
Incense unto Thee ascending.
The editors of Christian Culture received ten entries for our first poetry contest, representing 6 states and 5 graduating classes of prospective LCC students. Thank you to all who entered, and congratulations to Julia on winning the contest!
Our Lord speaks and we listen. His Word bestows what it says. Faith that is born from what is heard acknowledges the gifts received with eager thankfulness and praise.
The depth of God’s love for us is seen in the work of the Suffering Servant, Christ. God sends the One who shall become disfigured and who shall be marred (Is. 52:14) in order to restore His people to glory and beauty.
I believe that confessional Lutheranism is the best expression of Christianity on earth, evidenced by our soteriology and sacramentology. It is the true Church as established in the inerrant Holy Scripture.
Why have we decided to take up this task of chronicling and introducing the various movements in American Christianity? The answer is very simple. We must know from where we have come to see where we are.
Before the Greeks began philosophizing, when Romulus had barely built Rome, King Hezekiah “did what was good and right and true before the Lord his God” (2 Chronicles 31:20), beautifying the temple and purging it of idolatry.
