Sermons Don’t “Do” It All

Jesus commissioned His Apostles to preach the Gospel (Luke 24:47).  The Apostle Paul told Pastor Timothy to “preach the word” (2 Timothy 4:2).  And so our Lutheran churches have properly valued faithful preaching. Jesus said to those whom He had sent to preach: “Whoever hears you, hears me.  Whoever rejects you, rejects me.  And whoever […]

The Didache

Starting on January 1st, we will begin a study on the oldest document in the New Testament Church outside of Scripture: The Didache.  The Didache was an instruction book for adult Gentile converts coming into a mostly ethnically Jewish Christian Church.  It is so ancient that only one of the four Gospels in the New […]