The Meek are the Earth Inheritors
that's a promise
1/ MERCY and TRUTH
2/ Charlotte Lozier Institute
I spent last week wrestling with a lot of vaccine stuff. The Charlotte Lozier Institue has a particularly helpful website with “Science and Statistics for Life”. Check it out.
3/ Martin Luther on the Persistent Prayer of Isaac
Isaac and Rebekah must have married with the great hope of having children. Isaac, after all, had inherited the promise from Abraham, “In your Seed, the nations will be blessed…” But Rebekah is barren for 20 years!
Isaac persists in prayer, and the Lord answers, and Jacob and Esau are born.
We studied this text in the Worldwide Bible Study Wednesday morning. Luther has some phenomenal things to say and teach about prayer.
If you don’t have time for the entire thing, you should watch the three minutes where Luther talks about the difference between ASKING, SEEKING, and KNOCKING in prayer.
Here are a few other highlights if you’d like to skip around:
5:20 Three things that make a theologian
13:50 the Contemplatio vs Tentatio ways of reading the Scriptures
15:45 The Gospel for some is a cause of great grief
20:00 The trouble of unmet expectations
25:30 The battle against the promise of God is very difficult (living in the gap between the giving and keeping of the promises of God)
30:25 The "problem" of suffering
34:00 Pray to annoy God
36:10 Ask, then seek, then knock: Luther's formula for persistent prayer
41:40 God is compelled by our prayers, we pray to change the mind of God
(I’m learning a ton from reading Luther’s Genesis commentary. I hope you all are as well. If you have other highlights, please send the timestamp, and I’ll add it to the description.)
4/ The Anti-Christian Workplace
I’ve begun a project surveying people about the antichristian workplace culture.
The results of the first survey are in. See them here.
5/ All Saints Sunday is one of my favorites.
We had a funeral last Sunday, so I was able to preach on all three texts, Matthew 5, 1 John 3, and Revelation 7. I hope these will be a comfort and encouragement to you. You can listen here.
I’m working today on a video with Weedon’s collection of Sola Scriptura quotations (radio interview here, text of essay here) from the church fathers. Keep an eye out.
And, someday, I’ll get my car back from the shop and resume the Sunday Drive Home.
Remember to go to your pastor's Bible Class this week and, read old theology books. (If you don't have a pastor or congregation, click here. If you don't have old theology books, click here.)
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Thank you, again, for your time and attention, and for your prayers. Please keep in touch.
Lord's Blessings, Pastor Wolfmueller
2 Corinthians 1:3-4
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