Category: Martin Luther and the Reformation
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Letter from the Editor: Learning About Luther’s Family Life
Dear soul-tenders and conscience-menders, I recently read an article titled “Four Lies That Cause Pastors to Neglect Their Families.” The same week I found another article advising pastors, “Prioritize family over ministry. You’ll find it to be the Best. Decision. Ever.”
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Here We Stand: Teaching the Blessings of Our Shared Lutheran Heritage – A Letter From the Editor
Dear fellow servants of the Word, Our pluralistic society insists on blurring the differences between denominations under the guise of being more loving and tolerant. After being bombarded with this message for many years, we may all have loosened our grip a bit on why we are Lutheran. Some of the folks on our membership…
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A Letter from the Editor Regarding Luther’s Protest
Dear fellow servants of the Word, Wise King Solomon observed, “Of making many books there is no end” (Ecclesiastes 12:12). That certainly is true of books in general, and we can also safely say that it’s true of books about Martin Luther and the Reformation. In fact, it has been said that more books have…
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A Letter Regarding the New Catechism
Dear Brothers in Christ’s Ministry, Luther wrote his Small Catechism to help pastors teach God’s Word, especially to children. He could not have imagined the sheer numbers of students who would be armed with the Word of Truth through his little book. No other book of Christian instruction has endured for almost 500 years. Not…
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A Letter from the Editor regarding 2000 Demons
Dear fellow soul-tenders, Though devils all the world should fill, all eager to devour us . . . (CW 200:3) Will you be singing that hymn a few extra times in your congregation this year as you celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Reformation? What will those first two lines of the third verse mean…
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Martin Luther, Part 12: The Knight (continued)
The Writer and Translator Martin Luther was not a man who could remain idle. There was work to be done. He couldn’t preach, but he could write. And it was here, in the “Land of the Birds,” that he did some of his most important writing. At first he had only his Hebrew and Greek Testaments, which he managed…
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Martin Luther, Part 11: The Knight
When Elector Frederick saw that things were not going well at the diet, he feared for Luther’s safety. He knew that his enemies would try to seize and kill him as soon as the safe conduct was no longer in effect. He told one of his trusted knights to see to it that Luther would be taken to a…
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Martin Luther, Part 10: The Edict of Worms
The Edict of Worms Charles V was angry. The next day he summoned the electors and princes to ask their advice. He had already made up his mind to put Luther under the imperial ban. He said, “I wish to proceed against him as a notorious heretic, and ask you to declare yourselves as you promised me.” But the…