Walther’s Gospel Postil takes a different tack on the multiplication of loaves and fishes. He focuses on the last couple of verses where the people try to take Jesus and make Him king by force. The title of Walther’s sermon is “Even Now Many Want to Seize Jesus and Make Him King”. Here are a […]

A church in which human fancy and cleverness is preached instead of God’s Word is nothing else than an open door to hell, a shambles of Satan. It were better for one to go into a den of robbers and murderers than into such a church of unbelievers. Thieves would kill only his body, but […]

Only one thing can keep a Christian from not being drawn into the swift current of sectarianism and be irresistibly swept away. He must find out where God’s Word is preached in its purity and the Sacraments administered according to Christ’s institution. Whoever does not consider that and that alone is lost; he must be […]

I commend C.F.W. Walther’s Gospel Postil sermon to you. The theme is “The Heterodox Also Have Upright Disciples of Christ”. If you have God Grant It from CPH, the devotions for Sunday and Monday of Epiphany 3 are from this sermon. Here are some other quotes. ——————————————————————————– Our Lutheran forefathers most decidedly rejected and condemned […]

C.F.W. Walther takes the opportunity to preach more or less a topical sermon on how the Holy Family is an instructive example for Christian parents and children. Here are selected quotes from his sermon in the “Evangeliumpostille”. ———————————————————————————- Granted that parents have done everything for their children they were able to during their school age, […]