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Stories of the Hymns - Lutheran Library Publishing Ministry - Alec Satin - Lutheran Librarian
“The purpose of this little book is to present to its readers some brief account of the origin and authorship of some of our more familiar hymns… to select from a very large amount of material which the author has for years past been gathering, a few of the more striking and interesting incidents connected with the composition of some of our best known Songs of Zion.
“It is quite possible, truly, that this little book may traverse some ground already familiar to some of its readers, but it is believed that to the great majority of them the story of the hymns is new, and will prove interesting and profitable… such facts connected with the origin of the hymns, as the author, after some years of patient search, has found most interesting and instructive to himself.” — Henry Martyn Kieffer.
Level of Difficulty: Primer: No subject matter knowledge needed.
Why Read This Book?Fascinating stories about well known hymns. This book is an encouragement to faith and just fun to read.
Henry Martyn Kieffer (1845-1930), wrote many books including “The Recollections of a Drummer Boy,” “College Chapel Sermons,” “The First Settlers of the Forks of the Delaware,” “It is to Laugh” “The Funny Bone,” etc. Especially valuable is his “Short Stories of the Hymns: A Brief Account Of The Circumstances In Which Some Of Our Best Hymns And Songs Were Written.” Dr. Kieffer served as pastor of the First Reform Church of Easton, Pa., where he translated early German record books of the church into the publication “Some of the First Settlers of The Forks of the Delaware and their descendants from 1760-1852”.
Book ContentsDedicationPreface1 Introduction2 “Jesus, Lover of my Soul” by Charles WesleyA War Incident◊ Charles Wesley3 “Nearer, My God To Thee” by Sarah Flower Adams4 Isaac Watts◊ Isaac Watts5 William Cowper and Augustus Toplady6 William Williams; The Titanic7 Henry Harbaugh8 Heber. From Greenland’s Icy Mountains9 “Just As I Am, Without One Plea.”The Hymn, “Stand up, Stand up for Jesus.”10 O Little Town of Bethlehem11 Home Sweet HomeThe First Singing of “Home, Sweet Home.”Something About “The Star Spangled Banner.”12 “Closing Hymns”13 “Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow.”14 “O Mother Dear, Jerusalem”The New Jerusalem16 “The Celestial Country”17 ConclusionOrder a Printed Copy
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Publication InformationLutheran Library edition first published: 2020Copyright: CC BY 4.0Read moreRecent Books and Articles PublishedShort Stories Of The Hymns by Henry Kieffer“The purpose of this little book is to present to its readers some brief account of the origin and authorship of some of our more familiar hymns… to select from a very large amount of material which the author has for years past been gathering, a few of the more striking and interesting incidents connected with the composition of some of our best known Songs of Zion. “It is quite possible, truly, that this little book may traverse some ground already familiar to some of its ...
Read moreEpistle Selections of the Ancient Church by R.C.H. Lenski“The need of a more adequate exegetical-homiletical treatment of the ancient gospel and epistle selections has long been felt. The manager of the Lutheran Book Concern has commissioned the writer of these lines to meet this need.” — R.C.H. Lenski Hardback edition now available! “…all epistle texts are selections from letters directed to certain definite persons for a certain important spiritual purpose. What the preacher of today does is to place himself and his hearers in the light of ...
Read moreBehind the Dictators by Leo Lehmann“What the Catholic Church is hoping and working for… is the reestablishment… of the ‘Real State,’ a rigid hierarchical system wherein inferiors are subject to superiors. In this system each individual, like a cell in a body, must humbly submit to his fate and occupy his “natural place” which is allotted to him from birth and have no desire to get away from it. “This basis of social structure is not only anti-Jewish, but also anti-Protestant. It ...
Read moreThe Letters of John Hus (Jan Hus) by Herbert B. Workman & R. Martin Pope“The Letters of Hus have long been recognized by the best judges as one of the world’s spiritual treasures. The discovery of Hus, if we may so express it, forms more than once a landmark in the spiritual development of Luther. “‘When I was a tyro at Erfurt,’ we read, ‘I found in the library of the convent a volume of The Sermons of John Hus. When I read the title I had a great curiosity to know what doctrines that heresiarch had propagated, since a volume like ...
Read moreOf the Church in General: The Lutheran View, Romish, Reformed by Guericke and Krauth [Journal Article]“The conception of the Evangelical Lutheran church proceeds from the inward spiritual essence of the church, as a communion of faith, love, the Holy Ghost, knit together by means of the word of God and the sacraments, but which also forms itself into a body in an outward manifestation. “In this outward manifestation, she is to be recognized by word and sacrament, as the outward conditions of what is within, and by confession, whose purity and unity, as in the case of word and ...
Read moreLutheran Fundamentals: A Simple System of Scripture Truth with Applications for the Common Man by George Gerberding“The Church needs to restudy, to re-accept, to reaffirm, to re-experience justification by faith… Has not a large part of the Protestant Church practically lost this Reformation doctrine? …Is she not unconsciously drifting back into the old Romish heresy of justification by works, by service, by doing? Is she not, unconsciously perhaps, drifting into the Rationalistic and Unitarian idea of justification by self-made character? “The doctrine of justification by faith ...
Read moreGospel Truths: Presenting Christ and the Christian Life by John Edwin Whitteker“This little volume of sermons has been prepared in response to repeated appeals from the people who heard them from the pulpit… they have been chosen from a cabinet of upwards of two thousand discourses. “In their preparation for pulpit use, two thoughts were constantly kept in mind: to preach Christ as the Way, the Truth, and the Life, with all their redemptive significance, and to implant in the minds and hearts of those who listened to their deliverance, those principles ...
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Epistle Selections of the Ancient Church by R.C.H. Lenski - Lutheran Library Publishing Ministry - Alec Satin
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In This IssueEpistle Selections of the Ancient Church by R.C.H. LenskiBehind the Dictators by Leo LehmannThe Letters of John Hus (Jan Hus) by Herbert B. Workman & R. Martin PopeOf the Church in General: The Lutheran View, Romish, Reformed by Guericke and Krauth [Journal Article]Lutheran Fundamentals: A Simple System of Scripture Truth with Applications for the Common Man by George GerberdingFeatured Epistle Selections of the Ancient Church by R.C.H. Lenski
“The need of a more adequate exegetical-homiletical treatment of the ancient gospel and epistle selections has long been felt. The manager of the Lutheran Book Concern has commissioned the writer of these lines to meet this need.” — R.C.H. Lenski
Hardback edition now available! “…all epistle texts are selections from letters directed to certain definite persons for a certain important spiritual purpose. What the preacher of today does is to place himself and his hearers in the light of some part of one of these imperishable letters, that now once more the original purpose of this part of the letter may be attained. When this fact is well understood, it will be easier to preach on epistle texts… The opinion that it is much harder to preach on the epistles of the Church Year than on the gospels is really not justified.” — R.C.H. Lenski
Richard C. H. Lenski (1864-1936) is best known for his insightful and still invaluable series of New Testament Commentaries. He served as Professor of Theology at Capital University and President of the Western District of Joint Synod of Ohio and Editor Die Lutherische Kirchenzeitung.
Level of Difficulty: Intermediate: Some subject matter knowledge helpful.
Dr. Lenski’s sermons are found in these books:Gospel Selections of the Ancient Church.Epistle Selections of the Ancient Church.Eisenach Gospel Selections. Planned.Eisenach Epistle Selections.Eisenach Old Testament Selections.New Gospel Selections.Book Contents
Index of Scripture Texts
Contents
Preface by Lutheran Librarian
Introduction
The Festival Half Of The Church Year From The First Sunday In Advent To The Festival Of The Trinity The Christian For Whom Salvation Has Been Wrought By The Lord
The Christmas Cycle
The First Sunday In Advent. Rom. 13:11-14The Second Sunday In Advent. Rom. 15:4-13The Third Sunday In Advent. 1 Cor. 4:1-5The Fourth Sunday In Advent. Phil. 4:4-7Christmas. Titus 2:11-14The Sunday After Christmas. Gal. 4:1-7The Circumcision Of Christ (New Year). Gal. 3:23-29The Epiphany Cycle: The Christian’s Manifestation Of Epiphany
Epiphany. Is. 60:1-6The First Sunday After Epiphany. Rom. 12:1-5The Second Sunday After Epiphany. Rom. 12:6-16The Third Sunday After Eplphany. Rom. 12:17-21The Fourth Sunday After Epiphany. Rom. 13:8-10The Fifth Sunday After Epiphany. Col. 3:12-17The Sixth Sunday After Epiphany. 2 Pet. 1:16-21The Lenten Cycle
Septuagesima. 1 Cor. 9:24-10:5Sexagesima. 2 Cor. 11:19 To 12:9Quinquagesima. 1 Cor. 13Invocavit. 2 Cor. 6:1-10Reminiscere. 1 Thess. 4:1-7Oculi. Eph. 5:1-9Laetare. Gal. 4:21-31Judica. Heb. 9:11-15Palm Sunday. Phil. 2:5-11Thursday Of Holy Week. Maundy Thursday. 1 Cor. 11:23-32Good Friday. Is. 52:13-53:12The Easter Cycle
Easter. 1 Cor. 5:6-8Quasimodogeniti. 1 John V. 4-10Misericordias Domini. 1 Pet. 2:21-25Jubilate. 1 Pet. 2:11-20The Pentecost Cycle
Cantate. James 1:16-21Rogate. James 1:22-27Ascension Day. Acts 1:1-11Exaudi. 1 Pet. 4:7-11Pentecost. Acts 2:1-13The Festival Of The Trinity. Rom. 11:33-36The Non-Festival Half Of The Church Year The Twenty-Seven Sundays After Trinity The Christian In Whom Salvation is Wrought by the Lord
The First After-Trinity Cycle
The First Sunday After Trinity. 1 John 4:16-20The Second Sunday After Trinity. 1 John 3:13-18The Third Sunday After Trinity. 1 Pet. 5:6-11The Fourth Sunday After Trinity. Rom. 8:18-23The Fifth Sunday After Trinity. 1 Pet. 3:8-15The Second After-Trinity Cycle
The Sixth Sunday After Trinity. Rom. 6:3-11The Seventh Sunday After Trinity. Rom. 6:19-23The Eighth Sunday After Trinity. Rom. 8:12-17The Ninth Sunday After Trinity. 1 Cor. 10:6-13The Tenth Sunday After Trinity. 1 Cor. 12:1-11The Eleventh Sunday After Trinity. 1 Cor. 15:1-10The Twelfth Sunday After Trinity. 2 Cor. 3:4-11The Third After-Trinity Cycle
The Thirteenth Sunday After Trinity. Gal. 3:15-22The Fourteenth Sunday After Trinity. Gal. 5:16-24The Fifteenth Sunday After Trinity. Gal. 5:25-6:10The Sixteenth Sunday After Trinity. Eph. 3:13-21The Seventeenth Sunday After Trinity. Eph. 4:1-6The Eighteenth Sunday After Trinity. 1 Cor. 1:4-9The Fourth And Last After-Trinity Cycle
The Nineteenth Sunday After Trinity. Eph. 4:22-28The Twentieth Sunday After Trinity. Eph. V. 15-21The Twenty-first Sunday After Trinity. Eph. 6:10-17The Twenty-second Sunday After Trinity. Phil. 1:3-11The Twenty-third Sunday After Trinity. Phil. 3:17-21The Twenty-fourth Sunday After Trinity. Col. 1:9-14The Twenty-fifth Sunday After Trinity. 1 Thess. 4:13-18The Twenty-sixth Sunday After Trinity. 2 Pet. 3:3-14The Twenty-seventh Sunday After Trinity. 1 Thess. 5:1-11The Festival Of The Reformation Rev. 14:6-7
The Mission Festival. Rom. 10:13-17
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Publication InformationLutheran Library edition first published: 2021Copyright: CC BY 4.0Read moreRecent Books and Articles PublishedEpistle Selections of the Ancient Church by R.C.H. Lenski“The need of a more adequate exegetical-homiletical treatment of the ancient gospel and epistle selections has long been felt. The manager of the Lutheran Book Concern has commissioned the writer of these lines to meet this need.” — R.C.H. Lenski Hardback edition now available! “…all epistle texts are selections from letters directed to certain definite persons for a certain important spiritual purpose. What the preacher of today does is to place himself and his hearers in the light of ...
Read moreBehind the Dictators by Leo Lehmann“What the Catholic Church is hoping and working for… is the reestablishment… of the ‘Real State,’ a rigid hierarchical system wherein inferiors are subject to superiors. In this system each individual, like a cell in a body, must humbly submit to his fate and occupy his “natural place” which is allotted to him from birth and have no desire to get away from it. “This basis of social structure is not only anti-Jewish, but also anti-Protestant. It ...
Read moreThe Letters of John Hus (Jan Hus) by Herbert B. Workman & R. Martin Pope“The Letters of Hus have long been recognized by the best judges as one of the world’s spiritual treasures. The discovery of Hus, if we may so express it, forms more than once a landmark in the spiritual development of Luther. “‘When I was a tyro at Erfurt,’ we read, ‘I found in the library of the convent a volume of The Sermons of John Hus. When I read the title I had a great curiosity to know what doctrines that heresiarch had propagated, since a volume like ...
Read moreOf the Church in General: The Lutheran View, Romish, Reformed by Guericke and Krauth [Journal Article]“The conception of the Evangelical Lutheran church proceeds from the inward spiritual essence of the church, as a communion of faith, love, the Holy Ghost, knit together by means of the word of God and the sacraments, but which also forms itself into a body in an outward manifestation. “In this outward manifestation, she is to be recognized by word and sacrament, as the outward conditions of what is within, and by confession, whose purity and unity, as in the case of word and ...
Read moreLutheran Fundamentals: A Simple System of Scripture Truth with Applications for the Common Man by George Gerberding“The Church needs to restudy, to re-accept, to reaffirm, to re-experience justification by faith… Has not a large part of the Protestant Church practically lost this Reformation doctrine? …Is she not unconsciously drifting back into the old Romish heresy of justification by works, by service, by doing? Is she not, unconsciously perhaps, drifting into the Rationalistic and Unitarian idea of justification by self-made character? “The doctrine of justification by faith ...
Read moreGospel Truths: Presenting Christ and the Christian Life by John Edwin Whitteker“This little volume of sermons has been prepared in response to repeated appeals from the people who heard them from the pulpit… they have been chosen from a cabinet of upwards of two thousand discourses. “In their preparation for pulpit use, two thoughts were constantly kept in mind: to preach Christ as the Way, the Truth, and the Life, with all their redemptive significance, and to implant in the minds and hearts of those who listened to their deliverance, those principles ...
Read moreThe Table Talk of Doctor Martin Luther: A Selection“Another quality that strikes us… is Luther’s unfailing sense of humor. Reformers are usually deficient in humor. Their earnestness seldom permits them to laugh. Luther was the most earnest man of his century, and lived in more earnest times than any Europe had witnessed since the close of the first century. But his merry laugh rings through the entire solemn drama of his life. He relieved himself and others by permitting himself glimpses at the ludicrous aspects which human nature ...
Read moreMay God cause his face to shine upon you and bring you peace.From Your Lutheran Librarian
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January 27, 2023
Behind the Dictators - Lutheran Library Publishing Ministry - Alec Satin
Newsletter fromThe Lutheran Library Publishing MinistryIn This IssueBehind the Dictators by Leo Lehmann
The Letters of John Hus (Jan Hus) by Herbert B. Workman & R. Martin PopeOf the Church in General: The Lutheran View, Romish, Reformed by Guericke and Krauth [Journal Article]Lutheran Fundamentals: A Simple System of Scripture Truth with Applications for the Common Man by George GerberdingGospel Truths: Presenting Christ and the Christian Life by John Edwin WhittekerFeaturedBehind the Dictators by Leo Lehmann
“What the Catholic Church is hoping and working for… is the reestablishment… of the ‘Real State,’ a rigid hierarchical system wherein inferiors are subject to superiors. In this system each individual, like a cell in a body, must humbly submit to his fate and occupy his “natural place” which is allotted to him from birth and have no desire to get away from it.
“This basis of social structure is not only anti-Jewish, but also anti-Protestant. It corresponds exactly to the system of the Jesuit Order itself as founded by Ignatius Loyola, the essential point of which consists in an hierarchical structure of ideas, and is characteristic of all Catholic political thought.” — Leo Lehmann
Corporatism is Fascism“The misconception that the corporative system is purely an economic matter, has blinded the American press and public to the real aim behind Catholicism’s advocacy of it. Corporatism is indeed the economic ingredient of Fascism. But it is also the essential element of Fascism, since the corporations make a parliament or congress unnecessary. For these corporations are the means through which the “Leader” exercises his dictatorial will. It was precisely because the Supreme Court judged that, by the NRA, Congress had abdicated its powers and was thus paving the way for Fascism, that it took vigorous action against it. The entire ideology of Fascism and Nazism — in social, economic, educational, religious and military matters — is contained in the corporative system. Corporatism is Fascism.
Book ContentsPreface by Lutheran Librarian1 Jesuits, Jews And Freemasons2 The Jesuits And The Protocols Of Zion3 The Strange Case Of Leo Taxil4 The Reestablishment Of The Holy Roman Empire5 Hitler And The Catholic Church6 The Catholic Church And The Corporative State7 The Greatest Trojan Horse Of Them All8 Nazi Socialism And Catholic Restoration9 Hitler’s Fight Against The Churches10 National Socialism And Catholic Action11 Rexism And Catholic Action12 Pro-Germanism Of Pope Pius XIIHis Twelve Years In GermanyHis Tie-up With Fascism“Chief Of Christendom”Treaty Of LondonMatthias ErzbergerSecret Vatican Treaty With GermanyInternational Catholic CommitteePapal Peace OffensiveJesuit Propaganda Among ProtestantsPacellis Post-War ActivitiesAppendix 1: A Vital Condition For Lasting Peace By Leopold Mannaberg, - Ph.D.Political Papacy Endangers PeaceVatican Alignment With FascismWorld-Wide Conspiracy Against The Soviet UnionLiberty Goes Down In ItalyDemocracy In Germany Goes The Same WayPoland And HungaryFranceCzechoslovakiaAustriaSpainHitler’s MistakeRemedial Suggestions. Appendix 2: Vatican Support Of German MilitarismDownload the eBook
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Publication InformationLutheran Library edition first published: 2020Copyright: CC BY 4.0Read moreRecent Books and Articles PublishedBehind the Dictators by Leo Lehmann“What the Catholic Church is hoping and working for… is the reestablishment… of the ‘Real State,’ a rigid hierarchical system wherein inferiors are subject to superiors. In this system each individual, like a cell in a body, must humbly submit to his fate and occupy his “natural place” which is allotted to him from birth and have no desire to get away from it. “This basis of social structure is not only anti-Jewish, but also anti-Protestant. It ...
Read moreThe Letters of John Hus (Jan Hus) by Herbert B. Workman & R. Martin Pope“The Letters of Hus have long been recognized by the best judges as one of the world’s spiritual treasures. The discovery of Hus, if we may so express it, forms more than once a landmark in the spiritual development of Luther. “‘When I was a tyro at Erfurt,’ we read, ‘I found in the library of the convent a volume of The Sermons of John Hus. When I read the title I had a great curiosity to know what doctrines that heresiarch had propagated, since a volume like ...
Read moreOf the Church in General: The Lutheran View, Romish, Reformed by Guericke and Krauth [Journal Article]“The conception of the Evangelical Lutheran church proceeds from the inward spiritual essence of the church, as a communion of faith, love, the Holy Ghost, knit together by means of the word of God and the sacraments, but which also forms itself into a body in an outward manifestation. “In this outward manifestation, she is to be recognized by word and sacrament, as the outward conditions of what is within, and by confession, whose purity and unity, as in the case of word and ...
Read moreLutheran Fundamentals: A Simple System of Scripture Truth with Applications for the Common Man by George Gerberding“The Church needs to restudy, to re-accept, to reaffirm, to re-experience justification by faith… Has not a large part of the Protestant Church practically lost this Reformation doctrine? …Is she not unconsciously drifting back into the old Romish heresy of justification by works, by service, by doing? Is she not, unconsciously perhaps, drifting into the Rationalistic and Unitarian idea of justification by self-made character? “The doctrine of justification by faith ...
Read moreGospel Truths: Presenting Christ and the Christian Life by John Edwin Whitteker“This little volume of sermons has been prepared in response to repeated appeals from the people who heard them from the pulpit… they have been chosen from a cabinet of upwards of two thousand discourses. “In their preparation for pulpit use, two thoughts were constantly kept in mind: to preach Christ as the Way, the Truth, and the Life, with all their redemptive significance, and to implant in the minds and hearts of those who listened to their deliverance, those principles ...
Read moreThe Table Talk of Doctor Martin Luther: A Selection“Another quality that strikes us… is Luther’s unfailing sense of humor. Reformers are usually deficient in humor. Their earnestness seldom permits them to laugh. Luther was the most earnest man of his century, and lived in more earnest times than any Europe had witnessed since the close of the first century. But his merry laugh rings through the entire solemn drama of his life. He relieved himself and others by permitting himself glimpses at the ludicrous aspects which human nature ...
Read moreThe Passion for Life by Joseph HockingFrank Erskine is just at the start of his career when he is given less than a year to live. He moves from London to the Cornish coast in an effort to find peace before the end. And there his adventures begin. Level of Difficulty: Primer: No subject matter knowledge needed. About Joseph Hocking Joseph Hocking was a faithful Welsh minister. A prolific and popular writer in his lifetime, Rev. Hocking considered the novel an ideal platform for exploring Christian spirituality and the deeper ...
Read moreMay God cause his face to shine upon you and bring you peace.From Your Lutheran Librarian
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January 20, 2023
John Hus - Reformer and Martyr - Forerunner to Martin Luther.Lutheran Library Publishing Ministry. Alec Satin.
Newsletter fromThe Lutheran Library Publishing MinistryIn This Issue The Letters of John Hus (Jan Hus) by Herbert B. Workman & R. Martin Pope Of the Church in General: The Lutheran View, Romish, Reformed by Guericke and Krauth [Journal Article]Lutheran Fundamentals: A Simple System of Scripture Truth with Applications for the Common Man by George GerberdingGospel Truths: Presenting Christ and the Christian Life by John Edwin WhittekerThe Table Talk of Doctor Martin Luther: A SelectionFeatured
The Letters of John Hus (Jan Hus) by Herbert B. Workman & R. Martin Pope
“The Letters of Hus have long been recognized by the best judges as one of the world’s spiritual treasures. The discovery of Hus, if we may so express it, forms more than once a landmark in the spiritual development of Luther.
“‘When I was a tyro at Erfurt,’ we read, ‘I found in the library of the convent a volume of The Sermons of John Hus. When I read the title I had a great curiosity to know what doctrines that heresiarch had propagated, since a volume like this in a public library had been saved from the fire. On reading I was overwhelmed with astonishment. I could not understand for what cause they had burnt so great a man, who explained the Scriptures with so much gravity and skill. But as the very name of Hus was held in so great abomination that I imagined the sky would fall and the sun be darkened if I made honorable mention of him, I shut the book and went away with no little indignation. This, however, was my comfort, that perhaps Hus had written these things before he fell into heresy. For as yet I knew not what was done at the Council of Constance ' (Mon. Hus. vol. i. Preface).” — From the Introduction.
Level of Difficulty: Intermediate: Some subject matter knowledge helpful.
Book ContentsPrefaceIntroductionPart I. Letters Written Before the Death of Archbishop Zbinek (June 30, 1408 September 28, 1411)Part II. From the Death of Zbinek to the Exile of Hus (September 1411 September 1412)Part III. Letters Written during the Exile of Hus (September 1412 - August 1414)Part IV Letters Written on the Journey to Constance (August - November, 1414.)Part V. Letters Written during the Imprisonment at the Blackfriars (November 16, 1414 - March 24, 1415)Hus’s Final Declaration (July 1, 1415)Appendix A. A Doubtful Letter Of HusAppendix BOrder a Printed Copy
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Publication InformationLutheran Library edition first published: 2022Copyright: CC BY 4.0Read moreRecent Books and Articles PublishedThe Letters of John Hus (Jan Hus) by Herbert B. Workman & R. Martin Pope“The Letters of Hus have long been recognized by the best judges as one of the world’s spiritual treasures. The discovery of Hus, if we may so express it, forms more than once a landmark in the spiritual development of Luther. “‘When I was a tyro at Erfurt,’ we read, ‘I found in the library of the convent a volume of The Sermons of John Hus. When I read the title I had a great curiosity to know what doctrines that heresiarch had propagated, since a volume like ...
Read moreOf the Church in General: The Lutheran View, Romish, Reformed by Guericke and Krauth [Journal Article]“The conception of the Evangelical Lutheran church proceeds from the inward spiritual essence of the church, as a communion of faith, love, the Holy Ghost, knit together by means of the word of God and the sacraments, but which also forms itself into a body in an outward manifestation. “In this outward manifestation, she is to be recognized by word and sacrament, as the outward conditions of what is within, and by confession, whose purity and unity, as in the case of word and ...
Read moreLutheran Fundamentals: A Simple System of Scripture Truth with Applications for the Common Man by George Gerberding“The Church needs to restudy, to re-accept, to reaffirm, to re-experience justification by faith… Has not a large part of the Protestant Church practically lost this Reformation doctrine? …Is she not unconsciously drifting back into the old Romish heresy of justification by works, by service, by doing? Is she not, unconsciously perhaps, drifting into the Rationalistic and Unitarian idea of justification by self-made character? “The doctrine of justification by faith ...
Read moreGospel Truths: Presenting Christ and the Christian Life by John Edwin Whitteker“This little volume of sermons has been prepared in response to repeated appeals from the people who heard them from the pulpit… they have been chosen from a cabinet of upwards of two thousand discourses. “In their preparation for pulpit use, two thoughts were constantly kept in mind: to preach Christ as the Way, the Truth, and the Life, with all their redemptive significance, and to implant in the minds and hearts of those who listened to their deliverance, those principles ...
Read moreThe Table Talk of Doctor Martin Luther: A Selection“Another quality that strikes us… is Luther’s unfailing sense of humor. Reformers are usually deficient in humor. Their earnestness seldom permits them to laugh. Luther was the most earnest man of his century, and lived in more earnest times than any Europe had witnessed since the close of the first century. But his merry laugh rings through the entire solemn drama of his life. He relieved himself and others by permitting himself glimpses at the ludicrous aspects which human nature ...
Read moreThe Passion for Life by Joseph HockingFrank Erskine is just at the start of his career when he is given less than a year to live. He moves from London to the Cornish coast in an effort to find peace before the end. And there his adventures begin. Level of Difficulty: Primer: No subject matter knowledge needed. About Joseph Hocking Joseph Hocking was a faithful Welsh minister. A prolific and popular writer in his lifetime, Rev. Hocking considered the novel an ideal platform for exploring Christian spirituality and the deeper ...
Read moreMiracles by Theophilus Stork [Journal Article]“There has always been a secret prejudice against miracles…there is still a reluctance in many minds to admit these departures from the order of nature predicated in miracles… A modified form of this feeling may be seen in many honest believers in their disposition to overlook the miracles as the wonders of a distant age, answering an important purpose in the first introduction of Christianity, but of little use now as evidences of their religion. “But those who ...
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Newsletter fromThe Lutheran Library Publishing MinistryIn This IssueOf the Church in General: The Lutheran View, Romish, Reformed by Guericke and Krauth [Journal Article]Lutheran Fundamentals: A Simple System of Scripture Truth with Applications for the Common Man by George GerberdingGospel Truths: Presenting Christ and the Christian Life by John Edwin WhittekerThe Table Talk of Doctor Martin Luther: A SelectionThe Passion for Life by Joseph HockingFeaturedOf the Church in General: The Lutheran View, Romish, Reformed by Guericke and Krauth [Journal Article]
“The conception of the Evangelical Lutheran church proceeds from the inward spiritual essence of the church, as a communion of faith, love, the Holy Ghost, knit together by means of the word of God and the sacraments, but which also forms itself into a body in an outward manifestation.
“In this outward manifestation, she is to be recognized by word and sacrament, as the outward conditions of what is within, and by confession, whose purity and unity, as in the case of word and sacrament, suffice for the true unity of the church.
“Thus there is a visible-invisible, an invisible-visible church, of which the visible is the manifestation, as the condition of the invisible.” — Heinrich Guericke
Level of Difficulty: Intermediate: Some subject matter knowledge helpful.
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Book ContentsOf The Church In General: The Lutheran View, Romish, Reformed.Translator’s note.The Roman and Greek ViewZwingli and CalvinThe Arminian and Socinian ViewsMennonites and QuakersThe Swedenborgian ViewDownload the eBook
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Publication InformationLutheran Library edition first published: 2020Copyright: CC BY 4.0Read moreRecent Books and Articles PublishedOf the Church in General: The Lutheran View, Romish, Reformed by Guericke and Krauth [Journal Article]“The conception of the Evangelical Lutheran church proceeds from the inward spiritual essence of the church, as a communion of faith, love, the Holy Ghost, knit together by means of the word of God and the sacraments, but which also forms itself into a body in an outward manifestation. “In this outward manifestation, she is to be recognized by word and sacrament, as the outward conditions of what is within, and by confession, whose purity and unity, as in the case of word and ...
Read moreLutheran Fundamentals: A Simple System of Scripture Truth with Applications for the Common Man by George Gerberding“The Church needs to restudy, to re-accept, to reaffirm, to re-experience justification by faith… Has not a large part of the Protestant Church practically lost this Reformation doctrine? …Is she not unconsciously drifting back into the old Romish heresy of justification by works, by service, by doing? Is she not, unconsciously perhaps, drifting into the Rationalistic and Unitarian idea of justification by self-made character? “The doctrine of justification by faith ...
Read moreGospel Truths: Presenting Christ and the Christian Life by John Edwin Whitteker“This little volume of sermons has been prepared in response to repeated appeals from the people who heard them from the pulpit… they have been chosen from a cabinet of upwards of two thousand discourses. “In their preparation for pulpit use, two thoughts were constantly kept in mind: to preach Christ as the Way, the Truth, and the Life, with all their redemptive significance, and to implant in the minds and hearts of those who listened to their deliverance, those principles ...
Read moreThe Table Talk of Doctor Martin Luther: A Selection“Another quality that strikes us… is Luther’s unfailing sense of humor. Reformers are usually deficient in humor. Their earnestness seldom permits them to laugh. Luther was the most earnest man of his century, and lived in more earnest times than any Europe had witnessed since the close of the first century. But his merry laugh rings through the entire solemn drama of his life. He relieved himself and others by permitting himself glimpses at the ludicrous aspects which human nature ...
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The Passion for Life by Joseph HockingFrank Erskine is just at the start of his career when he is given less than a year to live. He moves from London to the Cornish coast in an effort to find peace before the end. And there his adventures begin. Level of Difficulty: Primer: No subject matter knowledge needed. About Joseph Hocking Joseph Hocking was a faithful Welsh minister. A prolific and popular writer in his lifetime, Rev. Hocking considered the novel an ideal platform for exploring Christian spirituality and the deeper ...
Read moreMiracles by Theophilus Stork [Journal Article]“There has always been a secret prejudice against miracles…there is still a reluctance in many minds to admit these departures from the order of nature predicated in miracles… A modified form of this feeling may be seen in many honest believers in their disposition to overlook the miracles as the wonders of a distant age, answering an important purpose in the first introduction of Christianity, but of little use now as evidences of their religion. “But those who ...
Read moreColumbus Theological Magazine Vol. 4, Matthias Loy, EditorThis volume contains the three part series, “The Nature of the Will,” “The Liberty of the Will,” and “The Bondage of the Will,” all by Prof. Matthias Loy. Other articles include, “He Shall Baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with Fire,” and “The Power Of God’s Word, According To The Lutheran And The Reformed Systems”. Much good reading! Level of Difficulty: Primer: No subject matter knowledge needed. Matthias Loy served as ...
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Miracles - by Theophilus Stork
Link here“There has always been a secret prejudice against miracles…there is still a reluctance in many minds to admit these departures from the order of nature predicated in miracles… A modified form of this feeling may be seen in many honest believers in their disposition to overlook the miracles as the wonders of a distant age, answering an important purpose in the first introduction of Christianity, but of little use now as evidences of their religion.
But those who unite in this fervid exclamation forget that miracles are fundamental to the very existence of objective Christianity. And although in their spiritual apprehension and experience of its blessed truths, they may not feel the necessity of miracles to confirm their faith in religion, still they are, in fact, the ultimate basis upon which the whole system rests."
The rationalists of the National Council of Churches have reduced the miracles to primitive minds and faulty Scriptures. Their miracle is reducing the population of believers at an astonishing rate, with the "conservative" sects following in their wake. "What could be more full of meaning?- for the pulpit is ever this earth’s foremost part; all the rest comes in its rear; the pulpit leads the world. From thence it is the storm of God’s quick wrath is first descried, and the bow must bear the earliest brunt." Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 8.
January 6, 2023
George Henry Gerberding - From the Lutheran Library Publishing Ministry - Alec Satin
“The Church needs to restudy, to re-accept, to reaffirm, to re-experience justification by faith… Has not a large part of the Protestant Church practically lost this Reformation doctrine? …Is she not unconsciously drifting back into the old Romish heresy of justification by works, by service, by doing? Is she not, unconsciously perhaps, drifting into the Rationalistic and Unitarian idea of justification by self-made character?
“The doctrine of justification by faith alone is most prominent in the theology of the Reformation. Luther calls it ‘the doctrine of a standing or a falling Church.’” — George Gerberding.
Level of Difficulty: Primer: No subject matter knowledge needed.
George Henry Gerberding studied under Charles Krauth and C. F. Schaeffer and assisted the Rev. Passavant. An indefatigable worker, he established and restored churches in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Fargo, ND. His Way of Salvation in the Lutheran Church was one of the most successful books ever published by the English Lutheran Church.
Book ContentsPreface by Lutheran LibrarianA Layman’s ForewordIntroductionPart One. God.1 We Believe in God.2 The Being and Nature of GodWho and What Is God?God Is a Spirit.The Attributes of God.3 The Works of God. — Revelation.4 CreationThe Creation of Angels.5 God’s Work of Providence.Part Two6 SinPart Three7 The Redeemer8 The Work of the Redeemer, or Redemption.How Did He Redeem Me?Part Four. The Application and Appropriation of Redemption9 The Holy Spirit, His Person and WorkThe Church.10 The Holy Spirit’s Work in Baptism11 Regeneration and Justification12 ConversionWho needs conversion?What part does the human will have in Conversion?13 Sanctification or Growth in HolinessThe Sacrament of the Altar, or Lord’s SupperFitness for Communion14 Prayer and SanctificationMistakes about Prayer.Christian Rules Of Prayer. Laid Down By Matthesius:15 Public Worship in God’s House, and Good Works as Aids in SanctificationPart Five. The Last Things16 The Last Things. — Death17 The Last Times18 The Second Coming of Christ19 The Resurrection20 The Final Judgment21 The End of the World22 Eternal Death, or Hell23 Everlasting Life, or HeavenCopyright NoticeDownload the eBook
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Publication InformationLutheran Library edition first published: 2021Copyright: CC BY 4.0Read moreRecent Books and Articles PublishedLutheran Fundamentals: A Simple System of Scripture Truth with Applications for the Common Man by George Gerberding“The Church needs to restudy, to re-accept, to reaffirm, to re-experience justification by faith… Has not a large part of the Protestant Church practically lost this Reformation doctrine? …Is she not unconsciously drifting back into the old Romish heresy of justification by works, by service, by doing? Is she not, unconsciously perhaps, drifting into the Rationalistic and Unitarian idea of justification by self-made character? “The doctrine of justification by faith ...
Read moreGospel Truths: Presenting Christ and the Christian Life by John Edwin Whitteker“This little volume of sermons has been prepared in response to repeated appeals from the people who heard them from the pulpit… they have been chosen from a cabinet of upwards of two thousand discourses. “In their preparation for pulpit use, two thoughts were constantly kept in mind: to preach Christ as the Way, the Truth, and the Life, with all their redemptive significance, and to implant in the minds and hearts of those who listened to their deliverance, those principles ...
Read moreThe Table Talk of Doctor Martin Luther: A Selection“Another quality that strikes us… is Luther’s unfailing sense of humor. Reformers are usually deficient in humor. Their earnestness seldom permits them to laugh. Luther was the most earnest man of his century, and lived in more earnest times than any Europe had witnessed since the close of the first century. But his merry laugh rings through the entire solemn drama of his life. He relieved himself and others by permitting himself glimpses at the ludicrous aspects which human nature ...
Read moreThe Passion for Life by Joseph HockingFrank Erskine is just at the start of his career when he is given less than a year to live. He moves from London to the Cornish coast in an effort to find peace before the end. And there his adventures begin. Level of Difficulty: Primer: No subject matter knowledge needed. About Joseph Hocking Joseph Hocking was a faithful Welsh minister. A prolific and popular writer in his lifetime, Rev. Hocking considered the novel an ideal platform for exploring Christian spirituality and the deeper ...
Read moreMiracles by Theophilus Stork [Journal Article]“There has always been a secret prejudice against miracles…there is still a reluctance in many minds to admit these departures from the order of nature predicated in miracles… A modified form of this feeling may be seen in many honest believers in their disposition to overlook the miracles as the wonders of a distant age, answering an important purpose in the first introduction of Christianity, but of little use now as evidences of their religion. “But those who ...
Read moreColumbus Theological Magazine Vol. 4, Matthias Loy, EditorThis volume contains the three part series, “The Nature of the Will,” “The Liberty of the Will,” and “The Bondage of the Will,” all by Prof. Matthias Loy. Other articles include, “He Shall Baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with Fire,” and “The Power Of God’s Word, According To The Lutheran And The Reformed Systems”. Much good reading! Level of Difficulty: Primer: No subject matter knowledge needed. Matthias Loy served as ...
Read moreColumbus Theological Magazine Vol. 3, Matthias Loy, Editor“This Magazine is designed to supply the want, long since felt, of a Lutheran periodical devoted to theological discussion. Its aim will be the exposition and defense of the doctrines of the Church as confessed in the Book of Concord. Theology in all its departments is embraced within its scope, though for the present special attention will be given to the controverted subject of predestination.” Level of Difficulty: Primer: No subject matter knowledge needed. Matthias Loy served as ...
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Alec Satin - Lutheran Library Publishing Ministry - Lutheran Librarian - Stork on Miracles
“There has always been a secret prejudice against miracles…there is still a reluctance in many minds to admit these departures from the order of nature predicated in miracles… A modified form of this feeling may be seen in many honest believers in their disposition to overlook the miracles as the wonders of a distant age, answering an important purpose in the first introduction of Christianity, but of little use now as evidences of their religion.
“But those who unite in this fervid exclamation forget that miracles are fundamental to the very existence of objective Christianity. And although in their spiritual apprehension and experience of its blessed truths, they may not feel the necessity of miracles to confirm their faith in religion, still they are, in fact, the ultimate basis upon which the whole system rests.
Level of Difficulty: Intermediate: Some subject matter knowledge helpful.
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Publication InformationLutheran Library edition first published: 2019-05-29Updated: 2019-05-29Copyright: CC BY 4.0Read moreRecent Books and Articles PublishedMiracles by Theophilus Stork [Journal Article]“There has always been a secret prejudice against miracles…there is still a reluctance in many minds to admit these departures from the order of nature predicated in miracles… A modified form of this feeling may be seen in many honest believers in their disposition to overlook the miracles as the wonders of a distant age, answering an important purpose in the first introduction of Christianity, but of little use now as evidences of their religion. “But those who ...
Read moreColumbus Theological Magazine Vol. 4, Matthias Loy, EditorThis volume contains the three part series, “The Nature of the Will,” “The Liberty of the Will,” and “The Bondage of the Will,” all by Prof. Matthias Loy. Other articles include, “He Shall Baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with Fire,” and “The Power Of God’s Word, According To The Lutheran And The Reformed Systems”. Much good reading! Level of Difficulty: Primer: No subject matter knowledge needed. Matthias Loy served as ...
Read moreColumbus Theological Magazine Vol. 3, Matthias Loy, Editor“This Magazine is designed to supply the want, long since felt, of a Lutheran periodical devoted to theological discussion. Its aim will be the exposition and defense of the doctrines of the Church as confessed in the Book of Concord. Theology in all its departments is embraced within its scope, though for the present special attention will be given to the controverted subject of predestination.” Level of Difficulty: Primer: No subject matter knowledge needed. Matthias Loy served as ...
Read moreIn The Apostles' Footsteps: Sermons on the Epistle Lessons for the Church Year by Leander Sylvester Keyser“…there are many people today who are wandering in doctrinal fogland, and do not know what they believe; or, if they think they have any real convictions, they have pared them down to what they call ‘the irreducible minimum.’ Many people of the so-called ‘modern mind’ have very small and short creeds. They are determined to accept as little on faith as is possible, and yet continue to have any faith at all. “For our part, we are glad to say that we have ...
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The Story of My Life by Matthias Loy“The history of the Church confirms and illustrates the teachings of the Bible, that yielding little by little leads to yielding more and more, until all is in danger; and the tempter is never satisfied until all is lost. It is impossible to find a place to stop, when the concessions once begin." — Matthias Loy Level of Difficulty: Primer: No subject matter knowledge needed. Matthias Loy (1828-1915) is a theological giant of American Lutheranism. He served as president of the Joint ...
Read moreThe Way of Salvation In The Lutheran Church by George Gerberding“The aim of the author is to present a clear, concise, and yet as comprehensive a view as possible, of the way of salvation as taught in the Scriptures, and held by the Lutheran Church.” — M. Rhodes. Level of Difficulty: Primer: No subject matter knowledge needed. George Henry Gerberding (1847-1927) studied under Charles Krauth and C. F. Schaeffer and assisted the Rev. Passavant. An indefatigable worker, he established and restored churches in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Fargo, ND. ...
Read moreThe Life and Teachings of Theodore Emanuel Schmauk by George W. Sandt“Lutheranism clings to God’s Written Word. Her motto is the Word of God, the whole Word of God, and nothing but the Word of God, not as a prescriptive letter, but as the power of God unto salvation.” – Theodore Schmauk “[Dr Schmauk] ranks as one of the ablest and most consistent defenders of the Lutheran faith. His catholicity of spirit enabled him to put himself in the place of his opponent and see things from the latter’s point of view… And yet he never swerved from the ...
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November 19, 2022
Willaim Tyndale - Parallel to Luther's German Bible - Not a Copycat
Tyndale and Luther did not create the deceptive and foolish "make disciples" paraphrase of the Great Commission. Similar pratfalls are found in the modernized German Bible and the hideous NIV, ESV, RSV, NRSV, and Beck (rhymes with Yuk).
In 1525, William Tyndale, an English contemporary of Martin Luther, undertook a translation of the New Testament. Tyndale's translation was the first printed Bible in English. Over the next ten years, Tyndale revised his New Testament in the light of rapidly advancing biblical scholarship, and embarked on a translation of the Old Testament. Despite some controversial translation choices, and in spite of Tyndale's execution on charges of heresy for having made the translated Bible, the merits of Tyndale's work and prose style made his translation the ultimate basis for all subsequent renditions into Early Modern English.
David Daniell (2003). The Bible in English: Its History and Influence. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-09930-4.
