The Book of Concord - Henry Eyster Jacobs - Lutheran Library Publishing Ministry - Alec Satin - Lutheran Librarian

The Book of Concord 1911 Henry Eyster Jacobs Version

This is a highly readable, modern English version of the classic volume of Protestant Biblical theology. The translation of the Augsburg Confession is that of Charles P. Krauth, the Small Catechism by Charles F.

Joseph Hocking

 Nonconformist James Clark 1896 / March 2023 

The Mist on the Moors by Joseph Hocking

Joseph Hocking is the Lutheran Librarian’s favorite Christian novelist. Though mostly forgotten now, during his lifetime he was widely read and greatly beloved throughout the English speaking world. Most of his books deal in some way with the struggles and conflicts of living as a Christian in the modern world.

Henry Grattan Guinness

 Irish Protestant Hodder and Stoughton 1888 / March 2023 

Light for the Last Days by Henry Grattan Guinness

“In the following pages we present, in a fuller and more detached and definite form, the historic evidence of the fulfillment of the main chronologic prophecies of Scripture.” — Henry Grattan Guinness

Joseph Hocking

 Nonconformist Ward, Lock 1893 / March 2023 

All Men Are Liars by Joseph Hocking

“The Cynic puts all human actions into only two classes, — openly bad, and secretly bad. All virtue, and generosity, and disinterestedness, are merely the appearance of good, but selfish at the bottom.

Alfred Edersheim

 Anglican Anson Randolph 1884 / March 2023 

Prophecy and History in Relation to the Messiah by Alfred Edersheim

“(The purpose of this book) is to prove the truth of revealed religion in general, and of the Christian in particular, from the completion of those prophecies in the Old and New Testaments which relate to the Christian Church, especially to the apostasy of Papal Rome.

Craving - The Key To Good Nutrition and Long-Term Weight Loss

Various people have tried out Dr. Joel Fuhrman's books on nutrition and followed his advice, as I have. Rather provide some secret and magical ingredient that will change lives forever - or at least rob you of your loose change - I suggest absorbing his thoughts on craving food. This is derived from his books.

 Yes, I went for the cone at a family Dairy Queen photo-op.

Not so long ago, I was almost devoid of nutritional knowledge, except for the misleading promotions of the dairy and meat industries. Fuhrman notes that we build up a craving for foods and substances when we consume them. This explains why junk food and candy take up enormous shelf and refrigeration space in the grocery and dollar stores.

 I got into the dessert business early, age 4.

FSS - The American Diet - 

Fats, Salt, Sugars

So first we have to examine our food gimlet-eyed. A large portion of what we eat has become over-balanced with 

• Fats, 
• Salt, and 
• Sugars/fake sugars. 

If we eat fast food burgers frequently, we will crave them, even though they are overwhelmingly fatty, salty beyond belief, and sweetened. They are often enhanced with french fries (FSS), sodas (FSS) and...unbelievably...desserts (FSS). My father was an expert baker, and he knew how bad fast foods were - and the monetary price!

Let's forget calories - perhaps forever - and drinkable (laughable) liquid meals - and the latest fad, which has a trademark name.

We can fill up on pizza, burgers, hot dogs - and dessert and sodas. OR we can replace them almost entirely with vegetables and fruits. Apart from corn, popcorn, and potatoes - vegetables, greens, and fresh fruits are low in calories and very high in nutrition. 

My physician encouraged me simply by running a blood panel and measuring my blood pressure. I looked at some phony food fad claims and - by accident, if it were an accident - found Joel Fuhrman's Eat To Live brand new! in my library. My blood sugar had been perfect years ago, but no longer, and my blood pressure was up. The FSS diet works.

The first step is reducing as many items of FSS as possible - milk, butter, cheese, pizza, burgers, desserts, and anything fried or sugar coated. Most people do some of that periodically and gain again. I lost weight long ago by stopping all butter, a gateway drug for eating bread. I gained it back, with dividends.

The next step is replacing FSS with nutrition. Contrary to what we imagine, greens are extremely inexpensive and packed with nutrition, but almost completely calorie free - and satisfying - spinach, turnip greens, kale, collards, etc. Their fiber is essential in moving the digestive process slowly, because our God-created bodies are designed to break down food and put together miraculous combinations for our good. 

Just as the anti-hero in 1984 murmured "I love Big Brother" or today "I love Big Synod," so our bodies will say - "I love greens, beans, fresh fruit, sprouts, and seeds."

Side note - routine use of alcohol and tobacco will slowly and patiently cause all kinds of harm to the body because both are highly toxic. Both are good at creating the craving that seems to be satisfying but is deadly. Look at the synodicals with their guts (fatty livers) hanging out like 10 pound bags carrying 20 pounds of potatoes.

 Apple orchard - we made apple pies and apple turnovers. 

Back to healthy. 

Meat has complete protein, but chickpea beans do too, with lots of fiber and many essentials of nutrition added. Chickpeas lack the salt and fat of meats. Humus be chickpeas for the upper class.

Greens, seeds, fruit, and nuts can be mixed together in saucepan meal. 

My saucepan meal is:

1. A can of chickpeas.
2. Tomato paste.
3. Chopped, frozen spinach or other greens.
4. Blueberries, sometimes fresh pineapple.
5. Onions, green and red peppers.
6. A handful of walnuts.
7. Maybe sesame or flax seed.
8. Baby carrots - satisfying and good!
9. Cauliflower or broccoli or asparagrass.
10. Frozen mushrooms when available. 

The leftover saucepan goes in the fridge and is often used on spinach leaves as dressing. I keep trying combinations because it is fun and educational to bring home something new or different - like arugula or lima beans - and studying the nutritional value. God decided to put the greatest value in the best, cheapest, and most easily harvested foods. Meanwhile, teenagers bend over grease fryers and create heavily salted french fries for a minimum wage.

The Best Dessert - Fresh Fruit

I can eat a large but low calorie meal and crave something else. I keep a large supply of apples, oranges, and other items to take my mind and impulses off the dessert. (Confidential to RA - the deep freezer is no longer dominated by Schwan ice cream varieties.) 

Two large apples or oranges will stop the body's dessert demand, if eaten slowly. Our bodies will stop sending the hungry! signal in about 15 minutes. That is how we gain weight, eating desserts fast while seemingly hungry for them. 

From Luther's Laetare Sermon - Also Conveniently Found on the Masthead Each Day

Laetare -  Luther's Sermons - Feeding the Five Thousand

6. First, there was much hay or grass in the place. The Evangelist could not fail to mention that, although it appears to be unnecessary; however it signifies the Jewish people, who flourished and blossomed like the grass through their outward holiness, wisdom, honor, riches etc., as Isaiah 40:6-7, says: “All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, because the breath of Jehovah bloweth upon it; surely the people is grass.” From the Jewish people the Word of God went forth and the true food was given to us; for salvation is of the Jews, John 4:22. Now, as grass is not food for man, but for cattle; so is all the holiness of the outward Jewish righteousness nothing but food for animals, for fleshly hearts, who know and possess nothing of the Spirit.

7. The very same is taught by the people sitting on the grass; for the true saints despise outward holiness, as Paul does in Philippians 3:8, in that he counted his former righteousness to be filth and even a hindrance. Only common and hungry people receive the Word of God and are nourished by it. For here you see that neither Caiaphas nor Anna, neither the Pharisees nor the Scribes follow Christ and see Christ’s Signs; but they disregard them, they are grass and feed on grass. This miracle was also performed near the festive time of the Jewish Passover; for the true Easter festival, when Christ should be offered as a sacrifice, was near, when he began to feed them with the Word of God.

Navigation for the Original - Henry Eyster Jacobs - Luther's Large Catechism.Accept No Substitutes

 Jacob's entire Luther's Large Catechism is found in this linked PDF - Lutheran Library Publishing Ministry.

The haughty but misled Lutheran Church Missouri Synod has vomited its megaflop - Luther's Large Catechism - onto its publication list. The only generation left that can read would die before completing a fraction of CPH's latest publication mistake, so a few of us decided to emphasize the Large Catechism as written. That will take up some space, so this navigation page will serve to link each commandment from Luther's work. The link will be in the left column.

Large Catechism  

Introduction and First Commandment