Concordia Publishing House

So important.

And number three, the historic confessions of the church and i would point people to the book of concord and this is so easy first of all you can just buy it from concordia publishing house but i mean the full text is actually online for free just google book of concord now i'm gonna throw something else out there for your listeners and and i do this with the reminder to check your sources so major caveats coming but it can be a useful tool you can go to chat gpt i think bing will do it as well with their co-pilot but you can ask it for example what does the book of concord say about the invocation of saints and it's going to pull up the augsburg confession article 21 and the apology article 21 it'll even tell you what luther says in the small called articles now that's very helpful but let me offer this you need to have the actual book in hand or the online version because chat gpt does get things wrong so you can't just say well it said it must be true not necessarily but what it can help you with is locating it where it is in the text faster and here's actually something surprising because i thought well i'm going to test it and see it will actually also help find things for you in peepers christian dogmatics you know that three volume set you've got the index i got the index sometimes that's a little clumsy to work through But it does a pretty good job.

Like I said, you got to have the books.

So if you don't have the books, don't do this.

And I did that.

I picked up the reader's edition from CPH.

And Todd, you can see in my copy that's in my office, my comments in the margins.

You can see that at first I was fighting Walther.

Long story short, the Protestant Conference agreed to support the project, and Taylor Dulles evolved into the book you see in front of you.

Now, 14 years later, After Joel died in 2018, I, his narrative, the editors knew that Joel so happily wielded and was privileged to have the editorial assistance of Reverend Jesse Krusemark, our music engraver and LCMS pastor from Minnesota, and Matthew Carver, our layout designer and LCMS layman from Tennessee, editor of Walter's Hymnal published by CPH.

Other assistants are listed at the end of the introduction on page 16.

That's Romans 16.

where we have Luther's Christian questions and answers appropriately positioned before the divine service and chronos last summer.

Then on page 324, the willed setting of the divine service, another item that appears in no other current endnotes.

When Joel and I were at the St. Louis Seminary in 1956 and 57, Healy Willem conducted a workshop for representatives of the 60 plus congregations that were chosen to test his setting before CPH published it.

And because Joel and I were chapel organists, we were invited to attend.

Instead, I want to focus on the curricula that is perhaps more subversive, that parents or teachers or school administrators might suggest that you use.

The specific examples will be taken from two curricula that are sold by CPH, the LCMS publishing house, and highly rated on their site, and one that is the most popular, as far as I can tell, Christian SEL curriculum in the country.

I want to show you, both from the theory and from these examples, that this tool can only achieve anti-Christian ends.

You cannot turn it to good use without completely fundamentally changing its essence.

And I'm sure your listeners know, you've promoted it.

Concordia Publishing House has the entire Book of Concord available in digital form for free online.

Reformation would be a great time to log on to that or to order the paper copy and read, for instance, the Large Catechism.

I mean, look, the Reformation is about the rescuing of the gospel.

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We're responding to your unanswered Bible questions with Pastor Brian Ketchelmeyer, author of the book Reading Isaiah with Luther, and Pastor Brian Wolfmiller, author of Has American Christianity Failed? You can purchase both of these books at cph.org or by calling Concordia Publishing House 1-800-325-3040.

Pastor Wolf Miller, Lois has a question about Matthew 25.

She says, Jesus describes the final judgment and divides people according to their service to him.

They were thinking about how all this would work now at that size.

The next year, they end up buying Bethany Lutheran College in Mankato, so they're thinking about, "How is this going to work? We need to make a new hymnal." And their idea, I think, is, "We need to get the Missouri Synod and CPH, Concordia Publishing House, on board so we have the resources to make a hymnal that includes our tradition."

Why did the Lutherans of the synodical conference believe another English hymnal was ne-necessary?

Well, there are a few different reasons, and people, after a decade or so at least of using the Missouri Synod English hymnal and the Norwegians using their hymnal, et cetera, just realized that their hymnals were not on par with some of the other hymnals that were being produced.

I think it's most of his Prolegomena or at least a significant portion of it that is available in English, but I don't think it's in print anymore.

CPH put that one out.

The other one is put out by repristination.

So you can get some things of Quenched It in English.