“Christian parents, if you desire your sons and your daughters to become steadfast and useful members of the Church of Christ, see to it that you do your part in their religious instruction. Insist on it, and even use your… — G.H. Gerberding Copy Share Image
“People are made to realize the uncertainty and unsatisfactoriness of the affairs of this life. By losses, diseases, bereavements, or bitter disappointments, God seeks… — G.H. Gerberding Copy Share Image
“When we come to deal with an institution of His, we dare never expect to fathom or test it by our poor, short-sighted and sin-blinded reason, philosophy, science, or common sense. "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways… — G.H. Gerberding Copy Share
“Truly it required a divine mind to originate a scheme by which God "could be just and yet justify the ungodly." All the wisdom… — G.H. Gerberding Copy Share Image
“In our Lutheran Church, with her deep, significant and inspiring doctrine of this holy Sacrament, with her solemn and searching preparatory service, every such season ought to be a time of refreshing. What an auspicious opportunity is here offered for special sermons to precede the Holy Communion, for recalling the wanderer, awaking the drowsy, stirring up the languid, instructing the… — G.H. Gerberding Copy Share
“And should any one be ashamed of this public profession and refuse to make it, Jesus clearly tells such an one that of him… — G.H. Gerberding Copy Share Image
“Christian parents, if you desire your sons and your daughters to become steadfast and useful members of the Church of Christ, see to it… — G.H. Gerberding Copy Share Image
“In justification, God imputes or counts over to the sinner the righteousness of Christ. In sanctification, God imparts the righteousness of the new life. Justification is what God does for the believer; sanctification is what His Spirit does in him. Justification being purely an act of God, is instantaneous and complete; sanctification being a work in which man has a… — G.H. Gerberding Copy Share
“Nowhere in the whole Bible is it even intimated that it is God's desire or plan that children must remain outside of the covenant… — G.H. Gerberding Copy Share Image
“It would indeed be blasphemy for any man to claim that he had power in himself to forgive sins. If he can have any… — G.H. Gerberding Copy Share Image
“A true Lutheran pulpit cannot be a sensational pulpit, for discoursing wordly wisdom, philosophy, poetry, or politics. It must expound the Word, and never… — G.H. Gerberding Copy Share Image
“We cannot separate the water from the Word. We would not dare to baptize with water without the Word. In the words of Luther,… — G.H. Gerberding Copy Share Image
“Every lesson that does not make sin more hateful and Christ more precious, is in so far, a failure.” — G.H. Gerberding Copy Share Image
