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Short Stories Of The Hymns by Henry Kieffer Epistle Selections of the Ancient Church by R.C.H. Lenski Behind the Dictators by Leo Lehmann The Letters of John Hus (Jan Hus) by Herbert B. Workman & R. Martin Pope Of the Church in General: The Lutheran View, Romish, Reformed by Guericke and Krauth [Journal Article]

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Short Stories Of The Hymns by Henry Kieffer “The purpose of this little book is to present to its readers some brief account of the origin and authorship of some of our more familiar hymns… to select from a very large amount of material which the author has for years past been gathering, a few of the more striking and interesting incidents connected with the composition of some of our best known Songs of Zion. “It is quite possible, truly, that this little book may traverse some ground already familiar to some of its readers, but it is believed that to the great majority of them the story of the hymns is new, and will prove interesting and profitable… such facts connected with the origin of the hymns, as the author, after some years of patient search, has found most interesting and instructive to himself.” — Henry Martyn Kieffer. Level of Difficulty: Primer: No subject matter knowledge needed. Why Read This Book? Fascinating stories about well known hymns. This book is an encouragement to faith and just fun to read. Henry Martyn Kieffer (1845-1930), wrote many books including “The Recollections of a Drummer Boy,” “College Chapel Sermons,” “The First Settlers of the Forks of the Delaware,” “It is to Laugh” “The Funny Bone,” etc. Especially valuable is his “Short Stories of the Hymns: A Brief Account Of The Circumstances In Which Some Of Our Best Hymns And Songs Were Written.” Dr. Kieffer served as pastor of the First Reform Church of Easton, Pa., where he translated early German record books of the church into the publication “Some of the First Settlers of The Forks of the Delaware and their descendants from 1760-1852”. Book Contents Dedication Preface 1 Introduction 2 “Jesus, Lover of my Soul” by Charles Wesley A War Incident ◊ Charles Wesley 3 “Nearer, My God To Thee” by Sarah Flower Adams 4 Isaac Watts ◊ Isaac Watts 5 William Cowper and Augustus Toplady 6 William Williams; The Titanic 7 Henry Harbaugh 8 Heber. From Greenland’s Icy Mountains 9 “Just As I Am, Without One Plea.” The Hymn, “Stand up, Stand up for Jesus.” 10 O Little Town of Bethlehem 11 Home Sweet Home The First Singing of “Home, Sweet Home.” Something About “The Star Spangled Banner.” 12 “Closing Hymns” 13 “Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow.” 14 “O Mother Dear, Jerusalem” The New Jerusalem 16 “The Celestial Country” 17 Conclusion Order a Printed Copy Print Copy: Short Stories Of The Hymns by Henry Kieffer - “Lutheran Librarian” edition Download the eBook PDF Apple/Kobo EPUB Kindle AZW3 Legacy MOBI (If EPUB or AZW3 won’t work on your device) You can expect your book to arrive within a few hours. If you don't find it, check your spam or junk mail folder. You can also request a copy of this or any Lutheran Library e-book by sending an email with the book's title and format. Enjoy the book! Publication Information Lutheran Library edition first published: 2020 Copyright: CC BY 4.0 Read more

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Short Stories Of The Hymns by Henry Kieffer “The purpose of this little book is to present to its readers some brief account of the origin and authorship of some of our more familiar hymns… to select from a very large amount of material which the author has for years past been gathering, a few of the more striking and interesting incidents connected with the composition of some of our best known Songs of Zion. “It is quite possible, truly, that this little book may traverse some ground already familiar to some of its ... Read more Epistle Selections of the Ancient Church by R.C.H. Lenski “The need of a more adequate exegetical-homiletical treatment of the ancient gospel and epistle selections has long been felt. The manager of the Lutheran Book Concern has commissioned the writer of these lines to meet this need.” — R.C.H. Lenski Hardback edition now available! “…all epistle texts are selections from letters directed to certain definite persons for a certain important spiritual purpose. What the preacher of today does is to place himself and his hearers in the light of ... Read more Behind the Dictators by Leo Lehmann “What the Catholic Church is hoping and working for… is the reestablishment… of the ‘Real State,’ a rigid hierarchical system wherein inferiors are subject to superiors. In this system each individual, like a cell in a body, must humbly submit to his fate and occupy his “natural place” which is allotted to him from birth and have no desire to get away from it. “This basis of social structure is not only anti-Jewish, but also anti-Protestant. It ... Read more The Letters of John Hus (Jan Hus) by Herbert B. Workman & R. Martin Pope “The Letters of Hus have long been recognized by the best judges as one of the world’s spiritual treasures. The discovery of Hus, if we may so express it, forms more than once a landmark in the spiritual development of Luther. “‘When I was a tyro at Erfurt,’ we read, ‘I found in the library of the convent a volume of The Sermons of John Hus. When I read the title I had a great curiosity to know what doctrines that heresiarch had propagated, since a volume like ... Read more Of the Church in General: The Lutheran View, Romish, Reformed by Guericke and Krauth [Journal Article] “The conception of the Evangelical Lutheran church proceeds from the inward spiritual essence of the church, as a communion of faith, love, the Holy Ghost, knit together by means of the word of God and the sacraments, but which also forms itself into a body in an outward manifestation. “In this outward manifestation, she is to be recognized by word and sacrament, as the outward conditions of what is within, and by confession, whose purity and unity, as in the case of word and ... Read more Lutheran Fundamentals: A Simple System of Scripture Truth with Applications for the Common Man by George Gerberding “The Church needs to restudy, to re-accept, to reaffirm, to re-experience justification by faith… Has not a large part of the Protestant Church practically lost this Reformation doctrine? …Is she not unconsciously drifting back into the old Romish heresy of justification by works, by service, by doing? Is she not, unconsciously perhaps, drifting into the Rationalistic and Unitarian idea of justification by self-made character? “The doctrine of justification by faith ... Read more Gospel Truths: Presenting Christ and the Christian Life by John Edwin Whitteker “This little volume of sermons has been prepared in response to repeated appeals from the people who heard them from the pulpit… they have been chosen from a cabinet of upwards of two thousand discourses. “In their preparation for pulpit use, two thoughts were constantly kept in mind: to preach Christ as the Way, the Truth, and the Life, with all their redemptive significance, and to implant in the minds and hearts of those who listened to their deliverance, those principles ... Read more May God cause his face to shine upon you and bring you peace. From Your Lutheran Librarian editor@lutheranlibrary.org

Epistle Selections of the Ancient Church by R.C.H. Lenski - Lutheran Library Publishing Ministry - Alec Satin

Newsletter from The Lutheran Library Publishing Ministry

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Epistle Selections of the Ancient Church by R.C.H. Lenski Behind the Dictators by Leo Lehmann The Letters of John Hus (Jan Hus) by Herbert B. Workman & R. Martin Pope Of the Church in General: The Lutheran View, Romish, Reformed by Guericke and Krauth [Journal Article] Lutheran Fundamentals: A Simple System of Scripture Truth with Applications for the Common Man by George Gerberding

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Epistle Selections of the Ancient Church by R.C.H. Lenski “The need of a more adequate exegetical-homiletical treatment of the ancient gospel and epistle selections has long been felt. The manager of the Lutheran Book Concern has commissioned the writer of these lines to meet this need.” — R.C.H. Lenski Hardback edition now available! “…all epistle texts are selections from letters directed to certain definite persons for a certain important spiritual purpose. What the preacher of today does is to place himself and his hearers in the light of some part of one of these imperishable letters, that now once more the original purpose of this part of the letter may be attained. When this fact is well understood, it will be easier to preach on epistle texts… The opinion that it is much harder to preach on the epistles of the Church Year than on the gospels is really not justified.” — R.C.H. Lenski Richard C. H. Lenski (1864-1936) is best known for his insightful and still invaluable series of New Testament Commentaries. He served as Professor of Theology at Capital University and President of the Western District of Joint Synod of Ohio and Editor Die Lutherische Kirchenzeitung. Level of Difficulty: Intermediate: Some subject matter knowledge helpful. Dr. Lenski’s sermons are found in these books: Gospel Selections of the Ancient Church. Epistle Selections of the Ancient Church. Eisenach Gospel Selections. Planned. Eisenach Epistle Selections. Eisenach Old Testament Selections. New Gospel Selections. Book Contents Index of Scripture Texts Contents Preface by Lutheran Librarian Introduction The Festival Half Of The Church Year From The First Sunday In Advent To The Festival Of The Trinity The Christian For Whom Salvation Has Been Wrought By The Lord The Christmas Cycle The First Sunday In Advent. Rom. 13:11-14 The Second Sunday In Advent. Rom. 15:4-13 The Third Sunday In Advent. 1 Cor. 4:1-5 The Fourth Sunday In Advent. Phil. 4:4-7 Christmas. Titus 2:11-14 The Sunday After Christmas. Gal. 4:1-7 The Circumcision Of Christ (New Year). Gal. 3:23-29 The Epiphany Cycle: The Christian’s Manifestation Of Epiphany Epiphany. Is. 60:1-6 The First Sunday After Epiphany. Rom. 12:1-5 The Second Sunday After Epiphany. Rom. 12:6-16 The Third Sunday After Eplphany. Rom. 12:17-21 The Fourth Sunday After Epiphany. Rom. 13:8-10 The Fifth Sunday After Epiphany. Col. 3:12-17 The Sixth Sunday After Epiphany. 2 Pet. 1:16-21 The Lenten Cycle Septuagesima. 1 Cor. 9:24-10:5 Sexagesima. 2 Cor. 11:19 To 12:9 Quinquagesima. 1 Cor. 13 Invocavit. 2 Cor. 6:1-10 Reminiscere. 1 Thess. 4:1-7 Oculi. Eph. 5:1-9 Laetare. Gal. 4:21-31 Judica. Heb. 9:11-15 Palm Sunday. Phil. 2:5-11 Thursday Of Holy Week. Maundy Thursday. 1 Cor. 11:23-32 Good Friday. Is. 52:13-53:12 The Easter Cycle Easter. 1 Cor. 5:6-8 Quasimodogeniti. 1 John V. 4-10 Misericordias Domini. 1 Pet. 2:21-25 Jubilate. 1 Pet. 2:11-20 The Pentecost Cycle Cantate. James 1:16-21 Rogate. James 1:22-27 Ascension Day. Acts 1:1-11 Exaudi. 1 Pet. 4:7-11 Pentecost. Acts 2:1-13 The Festival Of The Trinity. Rom. 11:33-36 The Non-Festival Half Of The Church Year The Twenty-Seven Sundays After Trinity The Christian In Whom Salvation is Wrought by the Lord The First After-Trinity Cycle The First Sunday After Trinity. 1 John 4:16-20 The Second Sunday After Trinity. 1 John 3:13-18 The Third Sunday After Trinity. 1 Pet. 5:6-11 The Fourth Sunday After Trinity. Rom. 8:18-23 The Fifth Sunday After Trinity. 1 Pet. 3:8-15 The Second After-Trinity Cycle The Sixth Sunday After Trinity. Rom. 6:3-11 The Seventh Sunday After Trinity. Rom. 6:19-23 The Eighth Sunday After Trinity. Rom. 8:12-17 The Ninth Sunday After Trinity. 1 Cor. 10:6-13 The Tenth Sunday After Trinity. 1 Cor. 12:1-11 The Eleventh Sunday After Trinity. 1 Cor. 15:1-10 The Twelfth Sunday After Trinity. 2 Cor. 3:4-11 The Third After-Trinity Cycle The Thirteenth Sunday After Trinity. Gal. 3:15-22 The Fourteenth Sunday After Trinity. Gal. 5:16-24 The Fifteenth Sunday After Trinity. Gal. 5:25-6:10 The Sixteenth Sunday After Trinity. Eph. 3:13-21 The Seventeenth Sunday After Trinity. Eph. 4:1-6 The Eighteenth Sunday After Trinity. 1 Cor. 1:4-9 The Fourth And Last After-Trinity Cycle The Nineteenth Sunday After Trinity. Eph. 4:22-28 The Twentieth Sunday After Trinity. Eph. V. 15-21 The Twenty-first Sunday After Trinity. Eph. 6:10-17 The Twenty-second Sunday After Trinity. Phil. 1:3-11 The Twenty-third Sunday After Trinity. Phil. 3:17-21 The Twenty-fourth Sunday After Trinity. Col. 1:9-14 The Twenty-fifth Sunday After Trinity. 1 Thess. 4:13-18 The Twenty-sixth Sunday After Trinity. 2 Pet. 3:3-14 The Twenty-seventh Sunday After Trinity. 1 Thess. 5:1-11 The Festival Of The Reformation Rev. 14:6-7 The Mission Festival. Rom. 10:13-17 Copyright Notice Order a Printed Copy USA and world: Hardback: Epistle Selections of the Ancient Church by R.C.H. Lenski - “Lutheran Librarian” edition Canada: Epistle Selections of the Ancient Church by R.C.H. Lenski - “Lutheran Librarian” edition United Kingdom: Epistle Selections of the Ancient Church by R.C.H. Lenski - “Lutheran Librarian” edition Australia: Epistle Selections of the Ancient Church by R.C.H. Lenski - “Lutheran Librarian” edition Germany: Epistle Selections of the Ancient Church by R.C.H. Lenski - “Lutheran Librarian” edition Download the eBook PDF Apple/Kobo EPUB Kindle AZW3 Legacy MOBI (If EPUB or AZW3 won’t work on your device) You can expect your book to arrive within a few hours. 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Epistle Selections of the Ancient Church by R.C.H. Lenski “The need of a more adequate exegetical-homiletical treatment of the ancient gospel and epistle selections has long been felt. The manager of the Lutheran Book Concern has commissioned the writer of these lines to meet this need.” — R.C.H. Lenski Hardback edition now available! “…all epistle texts are selections from letters directed to certain definite persons for a certain important spiritual purpose. What the preacher of today does is to place himself and his hearers in the light of ... Read more Behind the Dictators by Leo Lehmann “What the Catholic Church is hoping and working for… is the reestablishment… of the ‘Real State,’ a rigid hierarchical system wherein inferiors are subject to superiors. In this system each individual, like a cell in a body, must humbly submit to his fate and occupy his “natural place” which is allotted to him from birth and have no desire to get away from it. “This basis of social structure is not only anti-Jewish, but also anti-Protestant. It ... Read more The Letters of John Hus (Jan Hus) by Herbert B. Workman & R. Martin Pope “The Letters of Hus have long been recognized by the best judges as one of the world’s spiritual treasures. The discovery of Hus, if we may so express it, forms more than once a landmark in the spiritual development of Luther. “‘When I was a tyro at Erfurt,’ we read, ‘I found in the library of the convent a volume of The Sermons of John Hus. When I read the title I had a great curiosity to know what doctrines that heresiarch had propagated, since a volume like ... Read more Of the Church in General: The Lutheran View, Romish, Reformed by Guericke and Krauth [Journal Article] “The conception of the Evangelical Lutheran church proceeds from the inward spiritual essence of the church, as a communion of faith, love, the Holy Ghost, knit together by means of the word of God and the sacraments, but which also forms itself into a body in an outward manifestation. “In this outward manifestation, she is to be recognized by word and sacrament, as the outward conditions of what is within, and by confession, whose purity and unity, as in the case of word and ... Read more Lutheran Fundamentals: A Simple System of Scripture Truth with Applications for the Common Man by George Gerberding “The Church needs to restudy, to re-accept, to reaffirm, to re-experience justification by faith… Has not a large part of the Protestant Church practically lost this Reformation doctrine? …Is she not unconsciously drifting back into the old Romish heresy of justification by works, by service, by doing? Is she not, unconsciously perhaps, drifting into the Rationalistic and Unitarian idea of justification by self-made character? “The doctrine of justification by faith ... Read more Gospel Truths: Presenting Christ and the Christian Life by John Edwin Whitteker “This little volume of sermons has been prepared in response to repeated appeals from the people who heard them from the pulpit… they have been chosen from a cabinet of upwards of two thousand discourses. “In their preparation for pulpit use, two thoughts were constantly kept in mind: to preach Christ as the Way, the Truth, and the Life, with all their redemptive significance, and to implant in the minds and hearts of those who listened to their deliverance, those principles ... Read more The Table Talk of Doctor Martin Luther: A Selection “Another quality that strikes us… is Luther’s unfailing sense of humor. Reformers are usually deficient in humor. Their earnestness seldom permits them to laugh. Luther was the most earnest man of his century, and lived in more earnest times than any Europe had witnessed since the close of the first century. But his merry laugh rings through the entire solemn drama of his life. He relieved himself and others by permitting himself glimpses at the ludicrous aspects which human nature ... Read more May God cause his face to shine upon you and bring you peace. From Your Lutheran Librarian editor@lutheranlibrary.org