The patriarchs and forefathers carried this promise on with preaching, teaching, and with offering sacrifices in their generations and among their people. They were also made pious and righteous before God through faith in the promise of God. In great adversity, even at last in the midst of death, they were preserved and saved through it.
O Jesus, Thou hast bought me, And I am Thine alone.
Many, both contemporary with Joseph and today, have questioned the authenticity of The Book of Mormon and the method by which Smith purportedly translated it. Skeptics have pointed to the lack of tangible evidence for the existence of the gold plates and criticized the book’s complex narrative structure and theological claims.
Virgil has an eye, an ear, and a sense for tying together grand themes, like fate or destiny, with both high human ideals, like piety and courage, and also with scenes of pathos, nostalgia, and poignancy.
While not a well-known figure from the Lutheran tradition, Heidenreich published many of his sermons and wrote several works aimed at the edification of the laity through prayer and meditation on God’s Word.
Holy poetry is being re-discovered and re-claimed by a new generation of Christians that desires traditional beauty and rejects the contemporary fads.
As surely as Jesus took the daughter of Jairus and commanded her to wake up, and as surely as he came out of the tomb on Easter morning, he promises that we will hear his voice as well.
Not only in the faith confessed by our forebears, but in their very methodology, do we find the guarantor of the faith once for all delivered to the saints.
Commonplacing became widespread among leading scholars during the Renaissance period, but its roots can be traced back to the Greeks and Romans of classical antiquity.
At the end of the day, this school is not about us demonstrating what we can achieve against all odds, or showing that we are right when others had doubts, or proving that we are better than others. It’s about glorifying God and serving our neighbour.
