If now you are asked, What do you believe in the Second Article of Jesus Christ? answer briefly: I believe that Jesus Christ, true Son of God, has become my Lord. But what is it to become Lord? It is this, that He has redeemed me from sin, from the devil, from death, and allContinue reading “Large Catechism on the Second Article of the Creed”
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On receiving the Eucharist frequently
If you could see how many daggers, spears, and arrows are aimed at you every moment, you would be glad to come to the sacrament as often as you can. The only reason we go about so securely and heedlessly is that we neither imagine nor believe that we are in the flesh, in theContinue reading “On receiving the Eucharist frequently”
Although you have not actually committed all these crimes…
For although you have not actually committed all these crimes, as far as you are concerned, you have nevertheless permitted your neighbors to languish and perish in their misfortune. It is just as if I saw someone who was struggling in deep water…and I could stretch out my hand to pull him out and saveContinue reading “Although you have not actually committed all these crimes…”
Dr. Luther on the Purpose of the Decalogue
The cause and need of this commandment is that God well knows that the world is evil, and that this life has much unhappiness; therefore He has placed this and the other commandments between the good and the evil. Now, as there are many assaults upon all commandments, so it happens also in this commandmentContinue reading “Dr. Luther on the Purpose of the Decalogue”
Nothing but Forgiveness of Sin
Everything, therefore, in the Christian Church is ordered to the end that we shall daily obtain there nothing but the forgiveness of sin through the Word and signs, to comfort and encourage our consciences as long as we live here. Thus, although we have sins, the grace of the Holy Ghost does not allow themContinue reading “Nothing but Forgiveness of Sin”
Locus Communis 