The Reformation reminds us of Luther, Melanchthon, and Chemnitz - so why am I even mentioning them? After all, if knowledge of Luther is withered away now, how much worse is content about the other two teachers?
How many preachers of any church body struggle to find some witty snippet at the end of November? The clergy are more likely to make fun of those three professors above, who risked their lives, changed Europe, and spread the Gospel to the world.
The percentage of Luther students is so small that anyone can attack the basics of the Gospel of Faith. The Lutheran (sic) synod leaders began waddling after Rome many decades ago, because Rome is cool.
One LCA pastor from many decades ago said this about his fellow seminary students at Philadelphia Seminary (now United), "Him? He was the only high church guy who wasn't gay!" Indeed - the most inclined students at Waterloo bragged about their group of seminarians putting on the display robes and prancing around the Fortress Press Store. Almy is the target now - and OH! what prices!
So we have a collision now. Anyone can have a truckload of printed worthwhile Luther books, and even more books through the marvels of digital reproductions like PDF - and through the spoken Word. The collision is the lack of use, whether heard, read, or inwardly digested.
Here is a concise collection of Lenker's Luther Sermons.
I am sprinkling some Luther quotations on this page, because I am too weak to resist the combination of Gospel and graphics.
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| This was Photoshopped from the Planet of the Apes movie, where the hero realizes Planet Earth is so destroyed that the Statue of Liberty is half-buried. Thus the Lutheran Church with its papal lusts, Calvinist errors, and Waltherian dogma. |
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| Year around, no? |
