Reformation Homily

David Stein Editorial Note: David Stein is the past-president of the Daystar community. With a Ph.D. in rhetoric he taught at Concordia University in River Forest, Illinois. Later he served as pastor at Holy Spirit Lutheran Church in Elk Grove Village, Illinois. There he hosted the second meeting of the Daystar community. Since his retirement he has preached…
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Reformation Today

Robert Schmidt For Lutherans it is a familiar celebration. Reformation Day celebrates Luther’s nailing the Ninety-Five Theses to the door of the Castle Church at Wittenberg, heralding the beginning of the Reformation. As Lutherans remember this day, they rejoice in the cardinal teaching of the Reformation that we are justified by grace, through faith, because…
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The Practice of the Reformation

What happens when Reformation theology gets practiced in everyday ministry? A parish pastor in Alexandria, Louisiana, writes with eloquence about rediscovering what the Gospel is all about in his daily work. Robert Martinek It seems that things are really quiet now, and I am usually one who “lurks,”but I thought I would share with you…
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Tell the Truth. Then Run (Sermon)

By Frederick Niedner Jeremiah 31:31-34: The days are surely coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to bring them out of…
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Reformationsfest 2007

By Matthew Becker Earlier this October I led a group of twenty Valparaiso University students on a week-long study trip to sites in central and eastern Germany connected with Martin Luther (1483-1546). The students have been participating in Valpo’s semester-long study abroad program in Reutlingen, Germany, where I serve as its director. This fall I’m teaching two courses: one on the theology…
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