Martin Luther wrote a little pamphlet when he was a pastor called “A Simple Way to Pray.” It basically takes some of the content of the Small Catechism and turns those things into headings for prayer. It was all written down in a letter to a guy named “Peter the Barber,” and was recently translated…

I will be flying out this Friday to do something that I have ended up doing once every 3 years – going to the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod National  Convention. I have learned that not a lot of people understand what this event is about. So I’m going to spend a little time outlining what…

The Holy Spirit is probably the mysterious person of the Trinity. I think we see that in the way that the 3rd article of the Creed gets written. The 1st and 2nd articles seem to have this formula that goes, “I believe in (Father/Son), and this is what He does…(creates, comes to earth and redeems).…

It is always dangerous to come up with a metaphor that describes the Trinity. Sooner or later, you’re bound to commit some kind of heresy if you take the metaphor far enough. So as I get into this, please don’t read too much into this metaphor. Consider the endeavor of making a film. It usually…