Oculi Sunday (Lent 3)| Luke 11:14-28| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| March 7, 2021 There has been a debate within the Lutheran Church concerning whether the Baptismal rite should include a rite of exorcism or not. An exorcism is when the minister casts a demon or Satan out of a possessed person, as Jesus did in our…
Reminiscere Sunday (Lent 2)| Genesis 32:22-32| Pastor James Preus| February 28, 2021 In our Old Testament lesson, we meet Jacob at the climax of his struggle with God and men. In order to understand the significance of this wrestling match, we must go back a few chapters to when Jacob first fled his family home. Jacob…
by Ulrik V. Koren NOTE: LSQ stands for Lutheran Synod Quarterly, where this essay was published. Koren was a leading theologian of the old Norwegian Synod, which was in fellowship (for a while) with the Missouri Synod in the 19th century. Today, among many Evangelicals, the Calvinist doctrine of the perseverence of the saints…
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