Treasures from the Lutheran Church

Dusting off some old Gospel gems...

Treasures from the Lutheran Church

Can I introduce you all to Dylan Smith? He graduated from the seminary in Ft Wayne last summer, and moved with his wife and three children to Austin, TX, to get his PhD in Old Testament from the University of Texas.

He’s a language genius. We were talking the other day, and he mentioned learning a language I had never heard him. I asked him how many languages he knew, and he didn’t know. So I asked him to name the languages. He listed 18 (and I’m sure he forgot some).

Dylan is a gift to the church.

Last week he started a project called Treasures from the Lutheran Church.

He’s tapping into the profound texts from the Lutheran Church: prayers, sermons, commentary, devotional material, and hymns. He’s translating these, and publishing them on his Substack.

Here’s an example:

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Thanks to the Lord for His Gifts

A simple form and way of heartfully thanking God the Lord for all benefits to the body and soul.

O Eternal and Holy Trinity, eternal Godhead and Almighty, before You I stand as a poor clod of earth. Your indescribable goodness and blessings to me, as lowly and undeserving as I am, are abundant without measure, so that You are to be praised with a sincere heart and with thanksgiving. Yet I hope that You through grace and mercy would, with all the contrite, repentant, and sighing sheep of Your pasture, hear me better than I am able to recall or recount before You in my human weakness, You who are eternal Wisdom and Righteousness.

Yet I thank You, O my heavenly Father, that You, according to Your counsel and will, have allowed me to come from my mother’s womb into the light of this world, and so wonderfully upheld me and directed me to this day through such innumerable distress and danger. Yes, through grace You have become my true and eternal Father, to whom I cry out in every cross and calamity and to whom I may say, “Our Father, who art in heaven.” O let this, Your Fatherly will and aid, ever prosper to the benefit of me and all the faithful. Amen.

Esaias Heidenreich, Kirchen und Hausgebetlein (1582)

I hope you’ll check it out.

I hope you’ll subscribe. You’ll get some great stuff, and you’ll help support the family of a faithful student of the Lord’s Word.

Here’s another piece:

Overview of the Bible with Johannes Brenz

A Short Summary and Overview of the Entire Holy Scriptures, Namely the Books of the Old and New Testaments

The books of the Old Testament teach us that the God whom Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that is, the Hebrews, worshiped, is alone the true God, and that He is almighty and eternal, that on account of His goodness, He created heaven, earth, and all that is in them through His Word, that all things come from Him, without whom no one is justified or shown mercy, who works all things according to His will, to whom no one may say, “Why has He created this or that?” or “Why has He acted in this way or that way?”

Moreover, this God also created the first man, Adam, according to His image and likeness, and appointed him as the lord of all created things on earth. This Adam, through the envy, cunning, and deception of the devil, when he became disobedient to the command of his creator, brought and introduced sin into the world by his own sin and transgression, which is so great and weighty that all of us who are born of him according to the flesh are now by behavior and nature children of wrath, and are therefore subjected to death, eternal damnation, the yoke of tyranny, and the power of the devil.

Johannes Brenz, Kurtzer Begriff und Inhalt der gantzen Heiligen Schrifft (1552)

Christ is risen!
PrBW

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