"Let anybody try this and he will see and experience how exceedingly hard and bitter a thing it is for a man, who all his life has been...

Here's a snippet from The Festival Sermons of Martin Luther  on the best way to honor the saints. The entire sermon is an inter...

Many of the arguments from Rome's defenders have been around a long time. For instance, ever heard the argument that without the Roman...

"But this also has a bearing on our firmly holding the conviction that there were really six days on which the Lord created everything,...

Here's Martin Luther's take on marriage and changing diapers: Now observe that when that clever harlot , our natural reason (w...

"I know that I have often done many things foolishly and very rashly, so much so that I thought: “Why has God called me to preach when...

Here's an interesting Luther comment from his commending preface to a book by Johann Brenz: But the gift of God that I particularly ...

Here's a Luther tidbit from LW 59:275 ( You can buy LW 59 here ): "I know a great archbishop, whom I shall not name,* who had a...

In the recent edition of Luther's Works, I came across a bit of practical common sense that most of us probably know, yet the way Luther...

"Faith is the yes of the heart, a conviction on which one stakes one's life. On what does faith rest? On Christ, born of a woman, m...

The book featured on the left presents a series of sermons related to Easter from 1529. Most of these sermons are not included in the Englis...

Here's a quote from Luther to ponder this New Year's Eve: "For through much practice, I have now come to the point (God be p...

Therefore it is necessary for simple people to understand this passage and similar passages well and to contrast the pope’s rule with these ...

I found the following quote allocated to my blogger drafts. It's been there for quite a while, and now, months later, I don't rememb...

(Dedicated to my dear friend, Skyman- thanks for all your work!) WITH such blindness and madness has our Lord Jesus Christ stricken the whol...

Know ye then- sin, death, devil, and everything that assails me- that you are missing the mark. I am not one of those who are afraid of you...

Councils may make decisions and pass decrees in matters that are temporal or that have not yet been clearly set forth. But when we can plai...

Here are a few quotes from Luther responding to a 16th Century Catholic apologist (Jerome Emser) who used quotes from the early church fathe...

Is it not true that money, property, body, wife, child, friends, and the like, are good things created and given by God Himself? Since, then...

Source: Works of Martin Luther Vol. III (Philadelphia Edition) pp.218-222 " AN EARNEST EXHORTATION FOR ALL CHRISTIANS, WARNING THEM AG...