The Lutheran Missal Project
The ancient series of lessons and prayers referenced by the Book of Concord is the Church’s historic Lectionary, a series of appointed Bible readings (lections), psalm verses, and prayers to be used within the Divine Service for nearly every day of the Church Year.
Banquet with Boethius: Right Pursuits and Right Education
Do not seek how he will live a long life here, but how he will live a boundless and endless life there. Give him the great things, not the little things.
Art in Our Lutheran Churches
In our contemporary culture, glutted as it is with cheap, fake images and thoroughly starved of real beauty, Lutherans would be wise to recover not only the pedagogical dimensions of art to teach, but the metaphysical power of art to communicate via beauty.
From Discipline to Self-Discipline
You cannot discipline your child until you have first disciplined yourself.
The Fight for the Christian School as a Fight for the Christian Worldview
It is obvious from the outset that it is of the fundamental character of the public school to be literally godless, that is, without God!
Getting to Know the Fathers: St. Cyril of Jerusalem
Throughout his teaching, moreover, Cyril shows a depth of Biblical fluency, connecting multiple events, figures, and prophecies from throughout the Old and New Testaments to the topics at hand.
The So-Called “Social Gospel”
So that is the aim of the social gospel, to establish the kingdom of Christ, the kingdom of heaven, the kingdom of God here on earth, as an outward visible organization.
Reformation of Education in Wittenberg: A Model for Today
The students flocked to Wittenberg because they wanted a serious and practical education that would prepare them to live life in the home and the state and the church. Students today are looking for the same thing, and they are finding it in classical colleges.
The Disrespect for Marriage Act
Misguided politicians bartered away God’s definition of marriage in return for institutional protections, but not individual protections. In so doing, they agreed to label dissenters as discriminators.
Transgenderism and the End of the Church Growth Movement
But on a fundamental level, the reason congregations don’t grow is because people love their sins, hate their Savior, and are not hearing a clear confession that will call them out of the darkness and into God’s marvelous light. The only solution to that problem is the Word of God.
