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11 mins read|06/02/22The relationship between faith and prayer or belief and worship is mutual. Faith produces prayer and prayer expresses faith.
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10 mins read|05/02/22On May 2nd, Cantate Sunday, in the year 1507, Luther celebrated his first Mass.
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13 mins read|03/02/21Apathy, melancholy, and disillusionment plague the footsteps of the up-and-coming generations more than ever, especially in the realm of religion, and it’s worth asking, “Why?”
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10 mins read|10/12/20What is it that the 13th session actually has to say about the Eucharist, and how does it compare to what Luther and the reformers confessed about the Lord’s Supper?
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8 mins read|08/31/20Cyprian actually rejected the accusation that he believed in rebaptism because he considered only the baptism within the church to be a valid or true baptism.
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12 mins read|07/23/20Both Hus and Luther arrived at the same conclusion: neither councils nor the pope had final authority in the church. Headship in the church belongs solely to Christ.
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8 mins read|04/02/20In this final article in the series, “The Lord’s Prayer During Lent,” Philip Bartelt talks about the 7th Petition (“Deliver us from evil”) and the Conclusion (“For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever and ever. Amen.”)
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6 mins read|03/17/20Despite the grave threat of martyrdom during his roughly thirty years of ministry, St. Patrick persevered and experienced enormous success.
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10 mins read|01/01/20Looking back on the year, the narrative we’re fed is that we should be able to show how much we’ve grown, how much we’ve done, all the successes we’ve had, how improved we are.
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11 mins read|11/29/19Instead of defining the true church in the way of the law, Augustine approaches the issue pastorally in the way of the gospel.
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11 mins read|11/20/19If someone confesses their sins into my ears, I have no options but to forgive them in the name of Christ.
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12 mins read|09/12/19When we read this chapter, we find that we are actually shaped by the word.
