Writings

We find the Holy Spirit, to use a language and a phraseology peculiar to his own divine self, declaring that God created all things by… Read More »Genesis Commentary, 2 of 10

Living lightly among our things, cultivating courage, and the grace of being grafted in.

Now that we are true lords in Christ, we direct our freedom toward servanthood for the benefit of our neighbors.

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

It ought to be a matter of great honor and satisfaction for you to see your son an angel in the empire and an apostle… Read More »A Sermon on Keeping Children in School, 2 of 2

The holy, Christian Church is outwardly known by the holy possession of the Holy Cross. Thus it becomes like its head, Christ.

In 1517, Luther was deeply concerned with the widespread understanding and practice of indulgences, but he was still not quite clear what indulgences and their… Read More »Ninety-Five Theses (1517)

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