In 1947, Martin Franzmann wrote this piece celebrating the anniversary of the founding of my church body, The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS). I share it today to commemorate it again, this is still the church where we should lay down no conditions. So We PreachMartin Hans Franzmann “The power of God unto salvation to everyone …
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An Expression of Joy and Humility
The following was part of my morning devotions. It is in The Daily Office (St. Louis: CPH, 1965), 254–6. An Expression of Joy and Humility Let us praise God in gladness and humility for all great and simple joys and for the weak things of the earth which have confounded the strong. For the gift …
No Half Measures
On this day in 1976, the day the church was singing how glad one can be when going to the house of the Lord, Martin Franzmann fell asleep in Christ. As this March 28th coincides not with Laetare Sunday but with Holy Thursday, I offer up a sermon Franzmann composed on a little line from …
I Wasn’t There
My favorite place to sit and think on the campus of Concordia Seminary in St. Louis is on a bench just inside the Walther Arch. The arch was famously boarded up fifty years ago today, with the word EXILED painted across it. February 19th, 1974 is a day many are remembering today, some perhaps even …
an occasional theologian 