Lutheran Library Publishing Ministry – "Faithful to the Reformation"

John Burns: The Hero of Gettysburg by Edmund Jacob Wolf

Let us see to it by the spirit of eternal vigilance that America continue to produce a race of men like John Burns, and our place in the forefront of the great world powers will be held as long as the granite and bronze of this monument, here dedicated to personal heroism and valor.

02 Jul 2018

Life Reminiscences of an Old Lutheran Minister by John Gottlieb Morris (1803-1895)

When I entered the ministry in 1826, what is called distinctive Lutheranism was not a subject of thought, much less of discussion. A few of the older clergy were probably orthodox on the sacraments, but they gave themselves no trouble about bringing their views prominently forward. Sometimes, owing to adverse associations, my faith was shaken, for at first it was not very firm; but when I got beyond the influence of living teachers, and began independent examination, the old Scripture doctrine would come back with double force.

28 Jun 2018

King Grimalkum or The Cats' Arabian Nights by Abby Morton Diaz

One evening when a company of children and older people were looking at funny cat-pictures and telling cat-stories, a little ten year-old girl asked: "Why can there not be a Cats' Arabian Nights Story Book?"

19 Jun 2018

Election and Predestination: The Blue Island Theses by Allwardt, Lenski and Tressel

Away with non-revealed mysteries in this or in any other doctrine! If there are real mysteries, i. e. real truths which it has not pleased God to reveal to us, then they are well taken care of in God's hands, but they do not belong to Christian doctrine. If, however, there are "mysteries" which directly contradict the revealed Word, then they are lies of the devil.

11 Jun 2018

Which Predestination: Reformed or Lutheran by Lenski and Stellhorn

This short booklet describes in outline form the differences between the Lutheran and Reformed understandings of election and predestination.

05 Jun 2018

Lutheran Library Updates – June 2018

May God bless you and keep you, help you, defend you, and lead you to know the depth of His love...

31 May 2018

Funeral Sermons by Lutheran Divines edited by Rev. Lewis Herman Schuh

An excellent collection of sermons to encourage, comfort and strengthen your faith. These 57 sermons were delivered by Revs. Lenski, Tressel, Schuh, Gohdes, Bauslin, Troutman, Long and others. Particularly good are numbers 12, 19, 22, 30, 38, and 45.

29 May 2018

Gotthold's Emblems by Christian Scriver

'Gotthold's Emblems' is a unique book of wisdom devotions written by Rev. Christian Scriver. From the time of its first publication this beloved volume has gone through more than 28 editions.

22 May 2018

Devotional Readings from Luther's Works For Every Day of the Year

"Luther and his work are not known in this country as they should be. America does not realize what an inheritance she has received from Luther and the Lutheran Reformation. The best way to understand Luther is to have Luther himself speak. His writings are so extensive that there is no trouble in finding something profitable for almost every occasion and condition in life.

17 May 2018

The True Church by Emanuel Greenwald

This Lutheran Library "short" is beloved pastor Emanuel Greenwald's guide on how to recognize a true Christian Church.

12 May 2018

Lutheran Library Updates – May 2018

Welcome – Format Updates – Recreational Reading – Dixie Kitten – The Adventures of Tommy Postoffice – Dogs in the Northland

04 May 2018

Sayings of Charles Porterfield Krauth

This little book consists of pithy selections from the biography of Charles Krauth. "Every sincere Christian should know Krauth."

03 May 2018

Selection of Sermons by Samuel Laird

Dr. Laird belonged to a group of stalwart preachers and leaders whose influence could not be confined to a congregation or a city or a synod. Among them were numbered such men as Krauth, Krotel, Mann, Spaeth, the Schaeffers, Schmucker, Seiss, Greenwald, Passavant. They rose into prominence at a time when Lutheranism in its English form was passing through a crisis because it had in large measure forgotten the rock whence it was hewn and the pit whence it was digged.

01 May 2018

Intuitu Fidei Election In View of Faith by Schmidt Lenski and Gohdes

Calvinism's "doctrines of grace" make unconditional election the first cause of a person's salvation. In contrast, the Book of Concord places "justification by faith" at the center of orthodox Christianity. In 1881 Missouri Synod president C. F. W. Walther split the Synodical Conference by insisting that "faith foreseen by God flows from election". This book examines the Lutheran symbols, their writers and early teachers to see if they teach election in foresight of faith.

11 Apr 2018

Theosophy and New Thought by Henry Clay Sheldon

Much of Evangelical religion is what used to be called New Thought. In this small, easy to digest book, Rev. Sheldon makes the important connections between the ideas of Madame Blavatsky's Theosophy, Ralph Waldo Emerson's New Thought and what passes as mainstream Christianity today.

04 Apr 2018

The Story of My Life by Matthias Loy

"The history of the Church confirms and illustrates the teachings of the Bible, that yielding little by little leads to yielding more and more, until all is in danger; and the tempter is never satisfied until all is lost. It seems but a small concession that we are asked to make when an article of our confession is represented as a stumbling block to many Christians which ought therefore in charity to be removed, but surrendering that article would only lead to the surrender of another on the same ground, and that is the beginning of the end; the authority of the inspired Word of our Lord is gradually undermined.

20 Mar 2018

Luther Examined and Reexamined by William H T Dau (1864-1944)

"An attempt is made in these pages to review the principal charges and arguments of Roman Catholic critics of Luther. This book is frankly polemical. It had to be, or there would have been no need of writing it. It seeks to meet both the assertions and the spirit of Luther's Roman Catholic critics. A review ought to be a mirror, and mirrors must reflect. But there is no malice in the author's effort."

16 Mar 2018

My Dogs in the Northland by Egerton Ryerson Young

It was a marvelous transition from that country parsonage where the joyous bark of a canine friend, "The first to welcome, the foremost to defend," was never heard, to the wild adventurous life in the Northland. There, in the first business transaction with my predecessor, I was told that there were a dozen dogs and puppies of Huskie breed, outside, anxious to make my acquaintance! The man who as a boy had peremptorily been refused the possession of the smallest puppy now entered into the ownership of a pack of cunning rascals who were quite competent to test his patience and sharpen his wits.

13 Mar 2018

The Conflict Of Fundamentalism And Modernism by Leander Keyser

What do PCA pastor Tim Keller, ELCA presiding bishop Elizabeth Eaton, and ELCA minister Nadia Bolz-Weber have in common? In this short book, Dr. Leander Keyser identifies the major characteristics which differentiate "modernists" from orthodox Christianity.

06 Mar 2018

The Baptism of Children by Emanuel Greenwald

In many localities our members live in the midst of those denominations who oppose the Baptism of children, and they need aid to enable them to defend themselves from attack, as well as to strengthen their own convictions of truth and duty. Such aid, it is hoped, this little manual will afford, which is prepared with special reference to their needs.

22 Feb 2018