Writings

Before you can take Christ as an example, you must receive him as gift.

When we now attempt to speak of that image we speak of a thing unknown, an image which we not only have never experienced.

Whose faith matters in baptism?

We are to come together, listen to God’s Word, launch up to heaven a strong, effectual prayer, and laud and praise God’s goodness with thanksgiving.

And as a hen sits upon her eggs, warming her eggs and infusing into them animation, so the Holy Spirit brooded as it were on… Read More »Genesis Commentary, 1 of 10

These outward, free things we should regard as the baptismal shirt or cloth in which a child is wrapped for baptism. The child is not… Read More »On the Councils and the Church, 4 of 4

We do not have to ask about the literal Latin or how we are to speak German. Rather we must ask the mother in the… Read More »An Open Letter on Translating, 1 of 2

“Dear Dr. Luther, how is it that you emphasize the Ten Commandments so much, though your teaching is that they are to be discarded?”

Ah, translating is not every one’s skill as some mad saints think. A right, devout, honest, sincere, God-fearing Christian, trained, educated, and experienced heart is… Read More »An Open Letter on Translating, 2 of 2

The Holy Scriptures constitute a book which turns the wisdom of all other books into foolishness.