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Fruit for the Soul: Luther on the Lament Psalms is unavailable, but you can change that!

Given a life spent in scholarship and controversy, it is easy to forget how much energy Martin Luther devoted to helping the common person understand and take comfort from God’s word. This commitment extended to even the most challenging of biblical texts, and nowhere is this more apparent than Luther’s work on the lament psalms. Difficult to understand, and perhaps even more difficult to...

All God’s children really do have troubles. Martin Luther knew that from his own experience. He identified the origin of these troubles and the wickedness behind them in the doubt that broke the relationship between the Creator and his first human creatures. When Eve and Adam doubted the word the Lord had given them, they changed the orientation of their lives and brought disorder, dysfunctions of many kinds, and finally despair into daily human experience. Turning away from God as the first
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