Matthew 11:12-19 Festival of the Reformation

Neither Dance Nor Dirge Matthew 11:12-19 Go to any farmer’s market, open-air craft fair, or urban street bazaar, and you can get a reasonable idea of the market Jesus is speaking about in our Gospel. The merchants arrive and set out their wares for the day, and soon the customers come looking for the best [...]

Luther’s Works–new volume now available

While the fifty-five volumes of Luther’s Works, American Edition is the most extensive collection of Luther’s works in English, it doesn’t contain even one half of all Luther’s writings.

But with CPH’s publishing of American Edition, Volume 69–Sermons on the Gospel of St. John, Chapters 17–20, that is all about to change.

Luther, Jesus, and Mary Magdalene

Old lies never die — they just become fodder for the entertainment industry. That’s the case, anyhow, with the fable that Martin Luther believed that Jesus and Mary Magdalene had gotten married. Now CNN has picked up an Entertainment … Read the whole post at Aardvark Alley:Aardvark Alley: Luther, Jesus, and Mary Magdalene

How to Meditate on the Passion of Christ

April 5, 1519, Martin Luther sent a copy of his essay titled A Sermon Concerning Meditation on the Holy Sufferings of Christ to his friend George Spalatin. Within five years, it had been published in twenty-four editions. It was enormously popular. It was translated into Latin in 1521. Later, when Luther put together helps and [...]

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