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2023

November

• Female rule is not a mark of faithfulness November 13
• Intential Childlessness is Suicide November 8
• Science is a primitive religion November 8
• Eve was the first relativist November 8

October

• Pride against the church October 30
• Angelmorphic Christology October 30
• Faith as humility October 30
• Honoring pastors for their work October 30
• Teaching for faith October 30
• Give thanks even in the fish October 30
• xref October 30
• Scriptural knowledge needed now more than ever October 30
• The music of worship is high priority October 30
• Singing and Christian joy October 30
• God’s judgment is also his salvation October 30
• Godliness arises when we acknowledge truth October 30
• The wicked fall just when they begin to flourish October 30
• 77 times October 26
• Christ in the OT October 26
• Coveting defined October 25
• Lovehacks October 3

September

• The Law does not destroy faith September 25
• Continual suppression of the truth September 20
• Daily Bible Reading September 7
• Pieper on tithing September 6
• Preaching sanctification is not opposed to justification September 6

August

• The highest office is of the Word August 24
• Vestments in Ezekiel August 24
• The blessings of reading Scripture August 24
• Ezekiel teaches justification through faith alone August 24
• Christ foreknows the Scriptures and their preservation August 24
• The office of the keys in the OT August 24
• God keeps us from sin August 24
• Faith is the opposite of works August 24
• Christ’s eternal throne August 24
• Despising the ministry August 24
• Prayer does not require knowing the answer August 24
• God’s name is his presence August 24
• Scripture commands us to remember the saints August 23
• The seven Spirits are the Holy Spirit August 23
• Augustine on toleration August 22

July

• The call to repent is always for upbuilding July 29
• Jesus teaches all things July 27
• David prays the doxology of the Our Father July 27
• Gerhard teaches the Lord’s Prayer July 27
• Daniel prays in Jesus’ name July 24
• Submission in Marriage July 22
• Life is God’s work July 11

March

• Christian joy stings unbelief March 17
• Spiritual maturity required to read scripture March 16
• We will recognize one another in heaven March 16
• Already in the Father’s house March 16
• Greatness of Rome March 14
• Luther against frivolity March 9
• Faith must wait to fruit love of God March 1
• Rom 8:20 March 1
• No escape from hell outside Christ March 1

2022

November

• How a husband loves November 17
• Preaching Sanctification November 9

July

• Weak faith is true faith July 19

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January

• 1 Cor 11-14 January 1
• A method for the deliberate practice of sermon writing January 1
• A necessary consideration on liturgy as style January 1
• Abortion January 1
• Absolution, Corporate January 1
• Acedia (apathy) January 1
• Addiction January 1
• Adoption (υἱοθεσία) January 1
• Adoption Resources January 1
• Alleluia January 1
• Alms January 1
• Altar January 1
• American Evangelicalism January 1
• Angels January 1
• Anger January 1
• Annihilation of the world January 1
• Antinomianism January 1
• Apologetics January 1
• Apostles Creed January 1
• Art, Ecclesiastical January 1
• Articles of the Faith, Fundamental and Non-Fundamental January 1
• Ascension of Christ January 1
• Atheism January 1
• Atonement January 1
• Augsburg Confession January 1
• Azazel (Scapegoat) January 1
• Baptism of Infants January 1
• Baptism’s Necessity January 1
• Baptism’s Validity January 1
• Bells and Chimes January 1
• Boasting in Oneself January 1
• Book of Concord January 1
• Boredom January 1
• Burial vs. Cremation January 1
• Call January 1
• Campus Ministry January 1
• Canon Law January 1
• Catechesis January 1
• Catechism January 1
• Catholicity January 1
• Celibacy January 1
• Ceremonies January 1
• Ceremonies, Unity of January 1
• Chastity January 1
• Choir, How-to January 1
• Christ as priest and substitute January 1
• Christ as the greater Solomon January 1
• Christ(ology) January 1
• Church Fellowship January 1
• Church Government January 1
• Church Growth January 1
• Church Year, Origins of January 1
• Church, Beatification of January 1
• Church, Definition of January 1
• Church, Visible & Invisible January 1
• Clarity and definition are gifts of creation January 1
• Cohabitation January 1
• Communion of Children January 1
• Communion, Frequent January 1
• Confirmation, Adult January 1
• Conflict January 1
• Conquest and Judgment January 1
• Conscience January 1
• Contentment January 1
• Contraception January 1
• Cross, Sign of the January 1
• Dating (Courtship) January 1
• Deacons January 1
• Death January 1
• Death does not spare age January 1
• Delinquent Members January 1
• Democracy January 1
• Dereliction, Divine January 1
• Distribution of the Sacrament January 1
• Divorce and Remarriage January 1
• Dogmatics, Lutheran January 1
• Downsides of the commonplace method January 1
• Education January 1
• Education, Theological January 1
• Effective teaching and catechesis through elaboration January 1
• Election January 1
• Epieikeia (ἐπιείκεια, leniency) January 1
• Eucharist January 1
• Eucharist, Adoration of January 1
• Eucharist, Consecration by Laity January 1
• Eucharist, Consecration of January 1
• Eucharist, Elements of the January 1
• Eucharistic Prayer (Canon) January 1
• Evangelism, Lay January 1
• Evil January 1
• Exegesis, preaching, and the feature positive effect January 1
• Faith January 1
• Faith Alone January 1
• Faith as Trust January 1
• Faith hope and love January 1
• Faith of Infants January 1
• Falling Away from Faith (Amissibility of Faith) January 1
• Familiarity Breeds Contemplation January 1
• Fasting January 1
• Fatherhood January 1
• Fathers (of the Church) January 1
• Filioque January 1
• Flesh (vs Spirit) January 1
• Funeral January 1
• Gerhard on infant death before baptism January 1
• Gerhard on Suicide January 1
• God gives the converts to the preacher January 1
• God Hidden and Revealed January 1
• God loves the home, Satan the mob January 1
• God was open to having us despite the cost January 1
• Good and evil works keep working after death January 1
• Good Works January 1
• Good writing is necessary for good sermons January 1
• Grief January 1
• Hades (Hell) January 1
• Happy the tear which is wiped away January 1
• Healing January 1
• Heaven January 1
• Hebrew January 1
• Hermeneutics of the Bible January 1
• History January 1
• Holy Spirit’s Work January 1
• Homiletics January 1
• Homosexuality January 1
• Humanism January 1
• Humanity of Christ January 1
• Humiliation January 1
• Humility January 1
• Image of God January 1
• Immortality of the Soul January 1
• Imposition of Ashes January 1
• Imprecatory Psalms January 1
• Incarnation January 1
• Jesus teaches the Trinity January 1
• Jesus, Historical January 1
• Judgment, The Last January 1
• Justification January 1
• Justification, Objective and Subjective January 1
• Justification’s relation to Sanctification January 1
• Kingdom of God (of Heaven) January 1
• Knowledge of God January 1
• Languages, Sacred January 1
• Latin (Verse) Composition January 1
• Latin Abbreviations January 1
• Law and Gospel, Distinction January 1
• Law is Eternal January 1
• Law, First Use January 1
• Law, Fulfillment of, Christian January 1
• Law, Punishment and Rewards January 1
• Law, Third Use January 1
• Lex Orandi Lex Credendi January 1
• Lie January 1
• Liturgy January 1
• Liturgy, Defense of January 1
• Liturgy, Lutheran January 1
• Liturgy, Music in January 1
• Liturgy, Vestments in January 1
• Luther on the examination of communicants January 1
• Luther says that good works are evidence of faith January 1
• Male & Female January 1
• Marriage January 1
• Marxism is pure evil January 1
• Mary, Lutheran Veneration of January 1
• Mary, Perpetual Virginity of January 1
• Mass January 1
• Means of Grace January 1
• Memorizing January 1
• Ministry January 1
• Miscarriage January 1
• Mission January 1
• Monasticism January 1
• Moses saw Jesus as the Goodness of God January 1
• Multiculturalism January 1
• Name of Christ January 1
• New Heavens and Earth January 1
• New Testament January 1
• New Testament, Textual Criticism of January 1
• Office, Threefold, of Christ January 1
• OHM and Priesthood of Baptized January 1
• OHM, Power-Duties of January 1
• OHM, Ranking within (Ordo Ecclesiasticus) January 1
• OHM, Titles for those in January 1
• Order of Creation January 1
• Ordination January 1
• Ordination of Women January 1
• Parenting January 1
• Pastor’s Salary January 1
• Pastoral Advice January 1
• Pastoral Care (cura animarum) January 1
• Planning and catechesis January 1
• Polygamy January 1
• Possessions (Private Property) January 1
• Prayer January 1
• Prayer for the Dead January 1
• Presence, Modes of January 1
• Providence January 1
• Purgatory January 1
• Receptionism January 1
• Repentance January 1
• Reverence January 1
• Righteousness (iustitia) January 1
• Righteousness of God January 1
• Sacraments in General January 1
• Sacrifice of the Mass January 1
• Saints, Commemoration of January 1
• Saints, Invocation of January 1
• Sanctification (New Obedience) January 1
• Scripture’s Authority January 1
• Scripture’s Clarity January 1
• Scripture’s Inerrancy January 1
• Self-Control (ἐγκράτεια) January 1
• Sequence Hymn January 1
• Sin, Consequences of January 1
• Sin, Divisions of January 1
• Sin, Original January 1
• Sins of Thought, Word, and Deed January 1
• Spirit of Men (Soul) January 1
• Stewardship January 1
• Strategic Planning January 1
• Taking notes is about thought retrieval January 1
• Temptation January 1
• Ten Commandments January 1
• The ethos of preaching from memory or manuscript January 1
• The godly should expect long life January 1
• The immortality of the soul January 1
• The Last Days January 1
• The Law promotes sanctification January 1
• The lie of feminism January 1
• The natural family is the anti-metaverse January 1
• The soulish and spiritual bodies January 1
• The souls in hell do not love January 1
• The souls of the saints rest in God’s hand January 1
• The Trinity is the whole thing January 1
• Tradition January 1
• Truth January 1
• Typology January 1
• Unequally yoked January 1
• Unionism January 1
• Unleavened Bread (Leven) January 1
• Visitation, of Mary January 1
• Vocation January 1
• Wisdom of God January 1
• Worship (Gottesdienst) January 1
• Wrath of God January 1