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On Marriage
On Marriage

Last month, my wife Grace and I celebrated our thirtieth anniversary. Grace ran across this essay, and shared it with me. And in fact, we put on the audio and listened together. It struck us just how much this resonated.

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Larry Beane Comment
I Do Not Permit a Woman to Teach
I Do Not Permit a Woman to Teach

You can be sure there’s a kind of soft-antinomianism* in play when you detect a reticence about dealing with certain parts of the Bible. One such part is St. Paul’s admonition to Timothy: “I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man, but to be in silence” (I Tim. 2:12).

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Burnell Eckardt Comments
The King of the Feeding Trough
The King of the Feeding Trough

In His rescue mission to save mankind, our Lord was dropped covertly behind enemy lines. The defeat of Satan by a baby born of a woman is a humiliation of the devil. The humiliation of our Lord is temporary. The humiliation of Satan is eternal.

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Larry Beane Comments
St. Caesarius of Arles on the Approach to Lent
St. Caesarius of Arles on the Approach to Lent

If we notice carefully, dearest brethren, the holy days of Lent signify the life of the present world, just as Easter prefigures eternal bliss. Now just as we have a kind of sadness in Lent in order that we may rightly rejoice at Easter, so as long as we live in this world we ought to do penance in order that we may be able to receive pardon for our sins in the future and arrive at eternal joy.

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Stefan GramenzSt. Caesarius of Arles, Lent Comments
"They Worship the Liturgy"
"They Worship the Liturgy"

At Gottesdienst we are familiar with the kind of complaints our adversaries like to level: that we’re legalists or modern-day Pharisees, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men. I think of these complaints as indicators of very poor worship practices on the part of those who make them.

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Burnell Eckardt Comments
The Way to Good is Almost Wild
The Way to Good is Almost Wild

During the decades when we heard little of this from Lutheran pulpits, there were still voices crying in the wilderness.  Gottesdienst’s “Sabre of Boldness” award brought to the memory of at least some of the LCMS clergy roster that Scripture bids us to “quit us like men” and “take up the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God.”  But the call to war issued by Scripture was rare indeed in our churches, except in our hymns, where departed saints from the Church triumphant bore witness to us.

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Bible, HymnsGuest AuthorKarl Hess, Martydom Comments