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Wilhelm Loehe
Johann Konrad Wilhelm Loehe (1808-1872) served from 1837 to the end of his life as a village pastor in Neuendettelsau, Germany, in the vicinity of Nuremberg. This was a call that Loehe did not covet. However, from this out-of-the way place, Loehe engaged in a ministry and mission that had monumental influence, not only in Germany, but as far away ...
02.01.2023
Commemoration of Augsburg confession
The confession was presented to the Diet of Augsburg, an assembly of political leaders in the Holy Roman Empire, on June 25, 1530. Philipp Melanchthon, Martin Luther’s most influential colleague in Wittenberg, composed the document since Luther couldn’t attend the Diet because he had been declared a heretic and outlaw by the ecclesiastical and ...
24.06.2022
Why celebrate Christmas?
Awake, mankind! For your sake God has become man. Awake, you who sleep, rise up from the dead, and Christ will enlighten you. I tell you again: for your sake, God became man. You would have suffered eternal death, had he not been born in time. Never would you have been freed from sinful flesh, had he not taken on himself the likeness of ...
24.12.2021
When Jesus Was an Embryo
“For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.” (Psalm 139:13) “He made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.” (Phil 2:7) As one who has used some of the techniques of developmental biology, I have a rather different perspective on Advent to most people. ...
09.12.2021
Mikael Agricola – a reformer of the Churh in Finland
Mikael Agricola (accent on the first syllable, as in most Finnish words not compounds), was born in Uusimaa, Finland, about 1510. He went to school in Viipuri (Viborg) and then in the cathedral town of Turku (Abo). The bishop of Turku, a Dominican monk, sent him to study at Wittenberg, where he met Luther and Melanchthon, and upon returning home, ...
09.04.2021