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And that Cain keeps Killing Able

1/ Everything is the LORD’s, Psalm 3

(More Precious Bible Promises)

2/ Lord’s Supper: An Anthology

Pr Packer and I have collected excerpts form our Lutheran tradition on the topic of the Lord’s Supper, and published them together with discussion questions. You can download this free PDF here, or purchase copies from Lulu for $7.84 here.

https://wolfmueller.co/product/the-lords-supper-an-anthology/

3/ Luther’s Theological Last Will and Testament

We talked about another Myth about Lutherans: Luther Didn’t Go Far Enough on Issues this week. (You can listen here.)

This myth was already anticipated by Luther himself in 1528 (and other times). Getting ready for this conversation, I was reviewing this passage from Luther’s Great Confession Concerning Christ’s Supper. It’s a really important and beautiful passage. I commend it to you:

https://wolfmueller.co/the-third-part-of-martin-luthers-great-confession-concerning-christs-supper-1528/

4/ Cain Keeps Killing Able: One More Luther Passage

Out young adult conference starts today, and we’ll be talking about tradition and history. In preparation I found this passage from Luther’s 1535 Preface to the 1519 Galatians Commentary. In it Luther outlines the entirety of human history as the persecution of the righteous by the self-righteous.

Satan attacked this rock in Paradise when he persuaded our first parents to forsake their faith in the God who had given them life and who promised enduring life, and to try to become like God by means of their own wisdom and virtue (Gen. 3:5). In a further attack upon it that liar and murderer (John 8:44), who will always be completely consistent, soon set brother to kill brother, and this for no other reason than that by faith his godly brother had offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice (Heb. 11:4), while he, the wicked brother, who offered his works without faith, was not pleasing to God.

Later there followed a continuous and unbearable persecution of this faith by Satan through the sons of Cain…

You can read a three pages here.

5/ The Care of Souls

Dr Senkbeil, my professor and friend, was interviewed by Dr Carl Trueman on his podcast, the Mortification of Spin here. about his book The Care of Souls. You can here this interview here.

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