Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Everyone who believes in Christ overcomes the world through faith. There is no need to leave the world in order to do...
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Jesus saw Matthew, a tax collector, and told him to follow: to be his disciple. How would there have been perfection if...
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Are you willing to follow Jesus? If it means you would lose the civil right to buy and sell, to make a living, to...
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Having no bank account does not aid the spirit, though it may destroy the spirit if one takes pride in the so-called...
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
I have known people who refused to work on Sunday. Some employers understood; others did not. I heard of one man who...
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
God does not command certain pietistic practices of giving up property, friends, family, food, and clothing. Indeed,...
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
We must not forsake the gospel, even if it means loss of property, family, or even life. What is it that keeps you from...
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
God’s commandments forbid the forsaking of parents. Yet in this teaching of Jesus about leaving one’s family—even...
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Does our virtuous lifestyle add anything to faith? To be sure, we are to furnish our faith with virtue, knowledge,...
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
We are not justified before God because of a particular lifestyle, no matter how holy or special it may seem. God is...
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