An official announcement from Luther Foundation Finland. (More info plus photos will follow anon) Matti Väisänen, a bishop in the Mission Province of Sweden and Finland (Missionsprovinsen i Sverige och Finland), conducts his first ordination service on 2nd October 2010. The ordination, taking place in the Chapel of the Sacred Heart in Helsinki, will be…
She wasn’t meant to live
A wonderfully moving testimony from an abortion survivor. HT Pr. T. Messner via Cyberbrethren
Luther Hall
On Saturday, 25 September 2010, Luther Hall — the new student accommodation building — was opened at Westfield House, Cambridge. The liturgist was Pr. Joel Humann (tutor, Westfield House), the preacher was Dr. Reginald Quirk (Preceptor, Westfield House). The organist and cantor was Pr. Henry Gerike (Concordia Seminary, St. Louis). He also conducted the choir…
Spiritual eating: Taking issue with Chemnitz
Thus in these latter words concerning the salutary use of the Supper there is a description of the spiritual eating of the body of Christ which takes place by faith. And just as the substance of the Supper and the salutary use of the same are distinguished, so it is one thing when Christ says:…
Lutheranism in West Africa
An interview with Pastor James May of Lutherans in Africa on Issues Etc.
Learn from the crook
Homily for the 17th Sunday after Pentecost, preached at Our Saviour Lutheran Church and Oxford Lutheran Mission on 19 September 2010. (Audio from Oxford here) Proper20 Text: Luke 16:1-15 The Parable of the Shrewd, or Dishonest, Manager. The teaching of Jesus before us is undoubtedly one that has caused more headache among students of God’s…
TULIPs and ROSES
If I could be someone else for just a day, I might start with this guy: If you want to go down in history, why not come up with your Lutheran rival to TULIP. Have a look here.
Insufficient reason
When I do not find a passage in Scripture that denies that the body of Christ is present in the Supper or interprets the words of the Supper in a different way than they stand, I do not have a sufficiently strong reason to teach a new idea, especially one that arouses so great a…
Sound hermeneutics
Scripture is not of private interpretation but ... there is one sure interpretation particularly of those passages in which dogmas or articles of faith are treated as established on their own foundation, when Scripture explains itself by clear interpretation either in that particular passage or in other passages in which the same dogma is repeated.…
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