... in the face of grief, turmoil, and controversy he fell into a deep depression. Yet this is the very time when it is believed Martin Luther wrote that favorite Reformation Day hymn, "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God." What a great testimony on how to keep on keeping on ... God of refuge and strength. Thanks be to this God who is in Jesus Christ, reconciling the world. Amen and Amen. 1. Thomas Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum, That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back ...
... Jesus is Lord, Caesar is not. There can be only one Lord in a person’s life. In pre-World War II Germany, the great Lutheran pastor Martin Niemoller preached a sermon entitled, “Christ is my Fuhrer,” and Hitler jailed him because of it. (2) Just think what you are saying when you affirm in ... ), p. 94. (2) Howell, James C., The Life We Claim, (Abingdon: Nashville, 2005), p. 41. (3) Friedman, Thomas L., From Beirut to Jerusalem. (4) Jones, E. Stanley, a Song of Ascents, (Abingdon: Nashville, 1968), p. 93.
... and the feebleness of our Christian obedience to be found precisely in the fact that we are living on self-forgiveness and not a real forgiveness." Life Together (NY: Harper, 1954) 115-116. Potential penitents would do well then to remember church historian Martin E. Marty's observation that "Confession always occurs in the light of the Law of God, which annihilates any pretensions." Do the glut of so-called "confessions" by people in the public eye today really qualify as confessions? Or are they, as ...
