Danish Carving

1/ Blessed

Blessed is the man 
  who 
          walks not in the counsel of the wicked, 
          nor stands in the way of sinners,
          nor sits in the seat of scoffers; 
  but 
          his delight is in the law of the LORD, 
          and on His law he meditates day and night. 

2/ Asleep

For to be asleep with regard to the Word of God is to open the window to the devil.

-Martin Luther on Genesis 25:29, from today’s Worldwide Bible Class

3/ Woodcuts from an Old Danish Bible

(If you can find these online, please send me the link)

Notice the theme of Law (left side) and Gospel (right side)

These next images are from a different book, I think…

4/ Birth certificate of Denmark

One more picture from Denmark, this is the birth certificate, or baptismal certificate of Denmark, the Jelling Stone, memorializing when Bluetooth bright Christianity to Denmark around 980.

(what the original might’ve looked like)

5/ The Lutheran Fathers on Ghosts

I’m working on a little article for the Lutheran Witness online edition about ghosts. Here are a few interesting quotations.

First, Luther:

Evil spirits have introduced the knavery of appearing as spirits of the departed and, with unspeakable lies and cunning, of demanding Masses, vigils, pilgrimages, and other alms.

(Smalcald II.II.16)

Chemnitz points out how the Papal theologians listen to ghosts to get their teaching on purgatory:

Therefore Gregory introduced into the church a different, new method of proving and confirming dogmas of faith, namely to seek the truth from the dead, which however God clearly and expressly prohibited in Scripture. (Chemnitz, Examin. IV 288-289.)

[W]hen ghosts had once been admitted to the teaching office of the church, fables of apparitions and visions without end and measure were heaped up. (Ibid. 292.)

On the basis of these specters, and not on the basis of Scripture, the papalists have established the whole structure of their purgatory. (Ibid. 301.)

Interesting.

The best text to look at for the dangerous teaching of ghosts is Job 4:12-21. I’ll put a link here to the article when it is published.

6/ John 12, A Wednesday Drive to Church Meditation

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Lord's Blessings, Pastor Wolfmueller

2 Corinthians 1:3-4

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From the website:

• Luthardt on the Ancient Memory of the Fall

• Luther on the Assurance of Salvation

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• Martin Luther’s works quoted in the Lutheran Confessions

• Prayer for the New Year

• Martin Luther on “Body, Soul, Spirit”

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