For the Life of the Church: A Practical Edition of Pastor Walther's Prayers and Addresses - Softcover

Walther, C. F. W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0758631391 ISBN 13: 9780758631398

Publisher: Concordia Pub House, 2011

Synopsis

No other book better illustrates why God chose C.F.W. Walther to serve as a pastor, professor, and president for the growing Lutheran churches on the American frontier. This updated translation reunites today s Christians with a treasure-trove of prayers that relate to all facets of public Christian life. These prayers reinforce basic Christian principles even as they bring the sweet message of the Gospel to those who need to hear God s Word for their lives. Additionally, a series of addresses explains both the cost of discipleship and the rewards of church membership.

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Review

No other book better illustrates why God chose C.F.W. Walther to serve as a pastor, professor, and president for the growing Lutheran churches on the American frontier. Walther's prayers and addresses are filled with the Spirit-given, Gospel-centered wisdom that startles those who would lead the Church today. They are so immediate in their concerns for the parish, so focused on God's Word and Sacraments that they draw us to wonder at the devotion of this man of God. Yet these same prayers and addresses sound most beautiful on the lips of laypeople, for whom Walther first spoke and wrote them. What more-fitting anniversary tribute could we bring to the One who raised up Walther than to turn our eyes heavenward, join our hearts in prayer, and raise up to God's throne these sincere petitions, which still define our highest spiritual needs as His children? --Rev. Edward A. Engelbrecht - General Editor of The Lutheran Study Bible

Edition details

• Publisher: Concordia Pub House
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0758631391
• ISBN 13: 9780758631398
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 193
• Editor: Schaum Charles P.