The Concordia Publishing House 2013 Complete Lent Resource Kit is available for immediate shipping.
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We are privileged here at Concordia Publishing House to have a truly beautiful worship space, our chapel. The windows you see represent the six chief parts, “bookended” by Christ on the left and Luther’s Seal on the right. Gorgeous. Though you would like to take a look. Yes, I took this photo during the chapel service while Rev. Scot Kinnaman was preaching, and hopefully not noticing me taking a picture with my iPhone! Click on the picture to see a larger version of it.
This series of videos introduce you to what the Apocrypha is and why it is valuable for Lutherans and all Christians, great stuff here folks. Enjoy. First you will see the general overview, then a series of shorter videos touching on various aspects in more detail. To order your copy click here.
From Rev. William Weedon, LCMS Director of Worship and IC Chaplain, by the way, here is a link to all Gerhard works in our inventory, and, below Pastor Weedon’s remarks, is information on becoming a subscriber to Gerhard, to receive 30% off and free shipping/handling. The free shipping offer is available to subscribers to our “Lutheran Fathers” program. Be sure to ask about that
An observation that my good friend Heath Curtis has made lately more than once needs to be underscored: our theological education had huge gaps, and if you are looking to fill those gaps, there is hardly a better person to be reading than the Loci of Johann Gerhard.
There is literally almost NO controversy that we think of as “modern,” no crisis in practice, no challenge from the polemics of others, that he has not already visited, prayerfully thought through, listened to the Sacred Scriptures, the Church Fathers, and canon law on, and provided a genuinely Lutheran answer to. Seriously. He continually blows me away.
Pastors and theologians: put some more Gerhard in your diet. You will be utterly amazed. Just a page or two a day! It’s the education in God’s Word, Church History, and practical application that you’ve been looking for.
And I’d add that one thing I LOVE about Gerhard is that his rich dogmatics do not come unglued from a fervent commitment to prayer and to clear, practical preaching. Pious, yes, without “pietism.” Profound insight, with no sense of theological showmanship. You just can’t do much better than reading him and let him bring you into the depths of Scripture!
Special thanks to Bishop Heiser’s Repristination Press and to our own Concordia Publishing House for making so many of his works accessible to this generation! May it continue the renewal among us English speakers that began with the bringing of the great works of Chemnitz into our language a generation or two ago.
Are you a FiskFan? Don’t know who Fisk is or why you should be, or would want to be, a fan?
Well, this person is listed on the clergy roster of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod: Fisk, Jonathan M.
A few years back Pr. Fisk started making weird YouTube videos, a whole Lord of Rings/World of Warcraft meets Monty Python with Ninjas and kitties kind of thing, but all about good Biblical Lutheran theology. He is still making them. They are still weird. They are still good. The YouTube channel is called “Worldview Everlasting”
He has a habit of making two videos a week, more or less. One is devoted to a discussion of the Gospel reading for the upcoming Sunday based on the original Greek, the other is a video devoted to … ummmm … well, not sure how to describe it. You just have to experience them to get it, or not, or sort of.
The last Greek Tuesday video he made was titled, “Don’t Cut Off Body Parts!” His videos are full of helpful safety tips like that.
I started watching his videos, along with a lot of other videos, when he started making them.
Fast forward a couple years to the point that Concordia Publishing House reached out to Fisk and said, “Hey, you weird YouTube video making person, you, would you like to do a book?” Took some convincing. Took him doing some writing and then us doing some editing and him doing some writing and then us doing some … you know. Well, at any rate. Fast forward to present time.
We are just about ready to send this book off to the printer.
It’s very good. I mean very good. Very. Very. Good. Because of my vast nearly limitless power as “Publisher” at this place, called “Concordia Publishing House” I can, at any time, with the press of a few buttons on my magic word machine (which others call a “computer”) bring to my very eyes pages from projects buried deeply in our computer servers, housed in a secure undisclosed location, which I have to ask permission to see in spite of my vast power….
I grabbed a page for you to take a look/see at.
The book reads and looks, kind of, like Fisk’s videos. Which is good. Also weird. But a good weird. Want to put in your preorder? We’ve got hundreds and hundreds of orders already, before the book is even published.
Don’t be left out when all the cool people in your church have a copy and you don’t and they won’t share with you but just look at you with that, “I’m cooler than you because I have a copy of this book and you don’t.” No, you don’t want that to happen, do you? I didn’t think so. So get in line, place an order.
CLICK HERE TO ORDER A COPY OR TWENTY.
Here are some more pics, just a little tiny sample:
First half of Table of Contents
A Page from the Book
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Called “the American Luther,” Rev. Dr. C. F. W. Walther promoted confessional Lutheranism on American soil in the 19th century by means of sermons, books, and articles—both regarding pastoral theology and regarding controversies on predestination, conversion, the Church, and her ministry. (Receive 1 book per year)
A lost treasure has been found! The Apocrypha, which went missing in action in English speaking Lutheranism, has been restored. Since the time of Luther’s first complete Bible translation, through the hundreds of years that followed, faithful Lutheran theologians, pastors and laity had the Apocrypha as part of their Bibles and spiritual heritage. It was quoted in doctrinal works, devotional works and in sermons by all orthodox confessional Lutherans, down to the days of C.F.W. Walther who referenced it in his writings and sermons. But, when the church here in America, the Apocrypha was lost because it was not printed in English Bibles that were used by Lutherans. Now, for the first time, a special Lutheran study edition is ready for you to dig into.
You may place your order now, by going to this web site.
Since Concordia Publishing House has moved all LOGOS based resources into the LOGOS web distribution method, there are now many titles available as stand alone volumes that once were only available when you bought “collections” in the Concordia Electronic Theological Library [CETL]. You can now purchase any of the volumes listed below as separate/stand alone volumes. The better pricing on them comes when you do buy them in the collections in which the are placed in the CETL, but if you do not wish to do that, you can purchase things now separately, as instant downloads into your LOGOS collection, and of course, if you wish, you can buy all these volumes as a single purchase if you buy the entire CETL Collection, for $475, which provides the following 40 volumes, just under $12 per book. The choice is yours now: purchase it all at once, for the greatest savings, or in individual collections, or as separate volumes.
In addition to these titles, we are bringing the existing volumes of the Concordia Commentary series into LOGOS, and will be adding the newer volumes of the Luther’s Works extension and the Gerhard LOCI collection. You can see all resources from CPH available in LOGOS by visiting our CPH LOGOS page, link here. And, by the way, you can also purchase any Luther’s Works (American Edition) as a stand alone volume, or in the entire collection. I listed those titles below, hit the “read more” link to see them.
I have good news, we are now taking pre-orders for The Apocrypha: The Lutheran Edition with Notes. We have it on sale for $34.99, regularly priced $39.99. You may order your copy by clicking this link. You can download a sample from the Apocrypha by clicking this link. If you, or your congregation, orders at least ten copies, you will receive free shipping and handling, since this is part of our Fall Bible Sale. We expect to receive the book from our printers by October, if not earlier.
I’ve had a lot of people asking me when the Worship Planner for Series C, 2013 will be available. Well, it is now. Just came in from the printer. Please let me underscore how important it is for you to purchase your copies now, before we run out of stock. This is not the kind of resource we want to have excessive inventory for, since it is dated material. So, he who hesitates is lost! Be sure to order enough copies for your: pastor, church office, musicians, etc. etc.
Order here. You can take a look at a sample from the planner, by clicking on this link.
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