Martin Luther

The Powerful Word

“The Bible is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; it has hands, it lays hold on me.” -Martin Luther, quoted in Mark Dever, What Does God Want Of Us Anyway (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2010), 21.

The Poison of Ambition

“Ambition is the rankest poison in the church, when it possesses preachers.  It is a consuming fire.  The Holy Scripture is given to destroy the desires of the flesh; therefore we must not therein seek after temporal honour.  I much marvel for what cause people are proud and haughty; we are born in sin, and …

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A Season For Work

“Some pastors and preachers are lazy and no good.  They do not pray; they do not read; they do not search the Scripture…The call is: watch, study, attend to reading.  In truth you cannot read too much in Scripture; and what you read cannot be read too carefully, and what you read carefully you cannot …

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Knowing Our Book

“It is a sin and shame not to know our own book or to understand the speech and words of our God; it is a still greater sin and loss that we do not study languages, especially in these days when God is offering and giving us men and books and every facility and inducement …

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Where the Word Preached, the Church is Present

“We must affirm with Martin Luther that the preaching of the Word is the first essential mark of the church. Luther believed so strongly in the centrality of preaching that he stated, ‘Now, wherever you hear or see this Word preached, believed, professed, and lived, do not doubt that the true ecclesia sancta catholica [Christian, …

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Monday Musings

Because this is the official month of the Protestant Reformation, today we are posting the Battle Hymn of the Reformation written by Martin Luther. A Mighty Fortress Is Our God A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing; Our helper He, amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing: For still our ancient foe …

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Monday Musings

“If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the Devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ.  Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier …

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Monday Musings

I want to be and remain in the church and among the little flock in which there are timid, weak, and ailing people who recognize and feel their sin, plight, and misery, who sincerely sigh and cry to God without ceasing for comfort and help, and who believe in the forgiveness of sins and are …

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