Our text also pictures some who were not a party to the slander but who also did not side with Christ. It says they testing Him, sought from Him a sign from heaven. They act as though they were ready to decide for Christ; only one thing is lacking. Christ should do a sign just [...]...

St. Louis, Mo., Feb. 20, 1875 Beloved and honored brother in the Lord, It seems to me you have not sufficiently freed yourself from the new abstract means of expression. In Germany one does not count as being educated nor as being intellectual nor as being a sharp-witted thinker if one has not adopt...

C.F.W. Walther wrote from the Belle of La Crosse (pictured) about his continuing struggles with stress and ill health. Ahhh... the pleasures of church work. Said Luther, "My head is like a dull knife. It just won't cut anymore." And Christ to Paul, "My strength is made perfect in weakness." MH On Bo...

Here's an excerpt from a letter of CFW Walther to Friedrich Wyneken. The latter, along with Craemer and or Sihler, managed to convince Walther that he needed a sabbatical in 1859. And he did. Walther in fact had a complete breakdown as other correspondence demonstrates (I've posted some things on th...

This photo is taken from the St. Louis Arch. Below is the Old Court House, built in 1828. Right across the street on the right, probably slightly to the west, was located Christ Episcopal Church (which is today Christ Cathedral St. Louis - no longer at the church's original location). Here the Saxon...

The Holy Scriptures undeniably describe faith as the only thing necessary for salvation.  They also teach that good works cannot justify a person before God or contribute in the least toward the attainment of salvation.  The Old Testament says that Abram ‘believed the Lord, and He counted it...

Something to ponder as we begin Lent from Blessed C.F.W. Walther: If you want to be eternally blessed by the battle of your Savior your heavenly General, nothing more is demanded of you and all men than that you play the part of a believing spectator. The important thing is  not, that you ...

As I’ve written about before here and here, one of the great contributions of the Lutheran wing of the Reformation to Christian theology was the emphasis on vocation and the normalcy of the “ordinary” Christian life.  While Luther wrote on this quite a bit, the emphasis on the the...

Today is the celebration of the Feast of Epiphany in the Western Church, that day when the Magi from the East (aka. ‘wise men’) are to have finally found the infant Jesus.  Writing on the events surrounding the journey and visit of the Magi, C.F.W. Walther writes: God chose to lead the ...

For all of those living along the Texas Gulf coast, looking back on 2008 cannot fail to bring to mind thoughts of stormy weather (Tropical Storm Edouard and Hurricanes Dolly, Gustav, and Ike).  Those who stayed endured several frightening and sometimes dangerous days.  Those who fled were left wor...