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All Praise to God, Who Reigns Above

“All Praise to God, Who Reigns Above” by Johann J. Schuetz, 1640-1690 Text From: THE LUTHERAN HYMNAL (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1941)

1. All praise to God, who reigns above, The God of all creation, The God of wonders, power, and love, The God of our salvation! With…

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Lord, When We Bend Before Thy Throne

“Lord, When We Bend Before Thy Throne” by Joseph D. Carlyle, 1758-1804 Text From: THE HANDBOOK TO THE LUTHERAN HYMNAL (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1942)p.21

1. Lord, when we bend before Thy throne And our confessions pour, Teach us to feel the sins we own And hate what we deplore.

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Is there a place for Polyamory in the Bride of Christ?

Today’s article comes from the Christian Post and can be found here. The article is titled:

Polyamory: Pastors’ Next Sexual Frontier Written by PRESTON SPRINKLE and BRANSON PARLER

This seems like an odd question to ask. Many of us are quick to give a response and others are careful to respond too quickly. Some might respond in a positive way others in a negative way. Yet, which way is…

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Third Evening Lecture

Third Evening Lecture 

September 26, 1884 

My Friends, 

Christ Himself has described the way to heaven as a narrow path. Just so narrow is the path of the pure doctrine. For the pure doctrine is nothing else than the doctrine regarding the way to heaven. It is easy to lose your way when it is narrow, rarely traveled, and leads through a dense forest. Without intending to do so and…

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Augustine's 'On the Spirit and the Letter'; Chapters 16-20

Chapter 16 [X.]—How the Law Was Not Made for a Righteous Man.

Because “for a righteous man the law was not made;”[1] and yet “the law is good, if a man use it lawfully.”[2] Now by connecting together these two seemingly contrary statements, the apostle warns and urges his reader to sift the question and solve it too. For how can it be that “the law is good, if a man use it lawfully,” if what…

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The Church and it's Dogmas

The Church and it’s Dogmas

12. THE CHURCH AND ITS DOGMAS

Since the Christian theologian is to teach only what Holy Scripture teaches and nothing else, the question has been raised whether creeds, dogmas, or confessions are rightfully given a place in the Christian Church. The question has been denied by both conservative and modernistic theologians. Modernistic theology favors a creedless, or undogmatic, Christianity. Its…

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Of the Church: Article 6 of the Defense of the Augsburg Confession

Of the Church

The Seventh Article of our Confession, in which we said that the Church is the congregation of saints, they have condemned, and have added a long disquisition, that the wicked are not to be separated from the Church since John has compared the Church to a threshing-floor on which wheat and chaff are heaped together, Matt. 3:12, and Christ has compared it to a net in which 2]there…

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Psalm 15

Lord, as I read your Word, humble me and show me your ways. Let your will be done that I may have Christ and see him on every page. That His righteousness, and not my own, is sought and received. Not of my merit but of His; given to me as a gift. Amen.

Psalm 15 A Psalm by David.

1 Yahweh, who shall dwell in your sanctuary? Who shall live on your holy hill? 2 He who walks blamelessly and…

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"God of Mercy, God of Grace

“God of Mercy, God of Grace” by Henry F. Lyte, 1793-1847 Text From: THE HANDBOOK TO THE LUTHERAN HYMNAL (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1942) p.20

1. God of mercy, God of grace, Show the brightness of Thy face; Shine upon us, Savior, shine, Fill Thy church with light divine, And Thy…

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The First Evening Lecture; Thesis 1

First Evening Lecture 

September 12, 1884 

My Dear Friends, 

If you are to become efficient teachers in our churches and schools, it is a matter of indispensable necessity that you have a most minute knowledge of all doctrines of the Christian revelation. However, having achieved such knowledge, you have not yet attained all that is needed. What is needed over and above your knowledge of…

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Augustine's 'On the Spirit and the Letter'; Chapters 11-15

Chapter 11 [VII.]—From What Fountain Good Works Flow.

This holy meditation preserves “the children of men, who put their trust under the shadow of God’s wings,”[1] so that they are “drunken with the fatness of His house, and drink of the full stream of His pleasure. For with Him is the fountain of life, and in His light shall they see light. For He extendeth His mercy to them that know Him,…

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Open Questions or Theological Problems

C. OPEN QUESTIONS, OR THEOLOGICAL PROBLEMS. 

Open questions must not be defined as points of doctrine “on which men cannot agree” or “which the Church has left undecided in its Confessions,” but as questions which Holy Scripture itself bas left open, or unanswered, or has not answered clearly. This definition of open questions is very important; for not human, but only Scriptural authority…

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Of Love and Fulfilling the Law: Article 5 of Defense of Augsburg Confession. Part 6

227] But here again the adversaries will cry out that there is no need of good works if they do not merit eternal life. These calumnies we have refuted above. Of course, it is necessary to do good works. We say that, eternal life has been promised to the justified. But those who walk according to the flesh retain neither faith nor righteousness. We are for this very end justified, that, being…

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Allegorical Eisegesis is not the Gospel

Today’s sermon comes to us from John’s Creek Presbyterian thier website can be found here. The PDF of the sermon can be found here. The sermon is titled:

Series: Get up! Part II: Missing the Point C. Gray Norsworthy Johns Creek Presbyterian Church January 26, 2020 Sermon text: John 5: 1-13

1 After these things, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 2 Now in Jerusalem…

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Psalm 14

Lord, as I read your Word, humble me and show me your ways. Let your will be done that I may have Christ and see him on every page. That His righteousness, and not my own, is sought and received. Not of my merit but of His; given to me as a gift. Amen.

Psalm 14 For the Chief Musician. By David.

1 The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt. They have done…

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Lord, We Come Before Thee Now

“Lord, We Come Before Thee Now” by William Hammond, 1719-1783 Text From: THE HANDBOOK TO THE LUTHERAN HYMNAL (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1942) p.17

1. Lord, we come before Thee now, At Thy feet we humbly bow: Oh, do not our suit disdain! Shall we seek Thee, Lord, in vain?

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Augustine's 'On The Spirit and the Letter'; Chapters 6-10

Chapter 6 [IV.]—The Teaching of Law Without the Life-Giving Spirit is “The Letter that Killeth.”

For that teaching which brings to us the command to live in chastity and righteousness is “the letter that killeth,” unless accompanied with “the spirit that giveth life.” For that is not the sole meaning of the passage, “The letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life,”[1] which merely prescribes…