Are Rulers to Uphold Both Tables of the Law?
Luther consistently maintained that no one could force faith; however, outward suppression of blasphemy and the preaching of false doctrine were distinct from compelling faith. Luther believed that only the Word of God could cure heresy, and that private false belief was an inward matter not to be dealt with by the magistrate.
Immigration and Christian Conscience
Once we allow the teachings of men to subsume and replace God’s commandments, we may allow anything. Once our smartphones teach us more than the Bible, we may be taught to obey or to think or to feel or to denounce anything. If we are the world’s mouthpieces, we will not speak for God.
A Defense of Christian Culture in the Post-Pandemic Era
The outlandish argument that the Two Kingdoms somehow coexist as two self-contained silos was foreign to our fathers.
The Conservative Reformation: Lutheranism, the Guarantor of the Ancient Faith
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.
The Classical Art of Keeping a Commonplace Book
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.
LCC Groundbreaking Sermon: Unexpected Ways and Places
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.
Review: Giants in the Earth, by O. E. Rölvaag
Giants in the Earth (1924–1925) brings an old-world perspective to bear on the experience of the Norwegian pioneers who undertook the herculean task of carving an existence out of the terrifyingly new and unfamiliar world of the northern Great Plains.
Communism and Socialism
The following is an excerpt from “Communism and Socialism: minutes of the First German Evangelical Lutheran Congregation, U.A.C. at Saint Louis, Missouri: a stenographic report of four lectures” by C. F. W. Walther and translated by Rev. D. Simon, 1879.
Inaugural Address
The oldest colleges and universities of this blessed Republic were founded by the Church. The founding fathers of America believed that if establishing churches was the number one priority, schools were the second.
Arianism Past and Present
Arius put his false teaching to music, and that false teaching continues to be chanted in our own day.