Luther’s Church Postil: Gospels: Advent, Christmas and Epiphany Sermons
Overview
Many preachers during Luther’s era did not write their own sermons, so they depended on lessons and sermons from others. Luther considered many of these borrowed sermons not fully evangelical. Thus, he wrote his Postils to provide preachers with biblically sound sermons from which they could preach for each Sunday of the year. In this volume, Luther’s sermons cover the first Sunday in Advent to Epiphany.
Top Highlights
“The curse of Eve did not come on her, where God said: ‘In pain thou shalt bring forth children,’ Gen. 3:16; otherwise it was with her in every particular as with every woman who gives birth to a child.” (Page 140)
“But when that has been done by the first word, namely, the law, and has worked deep despair and wretchedness in our hearts. then God comes and offers us his blessed and life-giving word and promises; he pledges and obligates himself to grant grace and help in order to deliver us from misery, not only to pardon all our sins, but even to blot them out, and in addition to this to create in us love and delight in keeping his law.” (Page 99)
“The whole Old Testament should be understood in this manner, and should be taken to be the swaddling clothes as a sign pointing out and making Christ known.” (Page 152)
“Christ must above all things become our own and we become his, before we can do good works” (Page 144)
“ must adapt ourselves to him, he will not adapt himself to us” (Page 142)
- Title: Luther’s Church Postil: Gospels: Advent, Christmas and Epiphany Sermons
- Author: Martin Luther
- Series: The Precious and Sacred Writings of Martin Luther
- Volume: I
- Publisher: Lutherans in All Lands Co.
- Print Publication Date: 1905
- Logos Release Date: 2016
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Bible. N.T. Gospels › Sermons
- Resource ID: LLS:LTHRSCHRCHPPHNY
- Resource Type: text.monograph.sermons
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T04:26:33Z
Martin Luther (1483–1546), one of the most significant figures in Western history, was a key figure in the Protestant Reformation. Over the course of his life, Luther was a monk, a priest, a professor of biblical literature, a Reformer, a husband, and a father.
Luther is most noted for his Ninety-Five Theses (1517), in which he argued that indulgences were not acts of penance which could replace true repentance. His refusal to retract all his writings, demanded by Pope Leo X in 1520 and the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V at the Diet of Worms in 1521, resulted in his excommunication by the pope and condemnation as an outlaw by the emperor.
Luther has been both praised and vilified for what he preached and wrote. Luther’s translation of the Christian Bible into the vernacular greatly influenced the church. His works continue to impact all Christians and animate the movement that bears his name. Luther’s Works (55 vols.) contains many of Luther’s writings, including commentaries, sermons, and lectures.