Writings

If you will not raise your child for this office, what will become of the spiritual office and estate?

This academic disputation from 1518—but only rediscovered about a century ago—is the principal source for the “theology of the cross.”

If we are to be delivered from evil, the name of God must first be hallowed in us, His kingdom must be with us, and… Read More »Large Catechism: Seventh Petition of the Lord’s Prayer

To be baptized in the name of God is to be baptized not by human beings but by God Himself.

Since both the water and the Word are one Baptism, therefore body and soul must be saved and live forever.

We bring the child and pray that God may grant it faith, but we baptize solely upon the command of God.

Bread and wine comprehended in, and connected with, the Word of God.

God is like an eternal, unfailing fountain, which, the more it pours forth and overflows, the more it continues to give.

It is the highest art to know that our sacrament does not depend upon our worthiness.

We pray that what must be done anyway without us may also be done in us.