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Luther’s Church Postil: Gospels: Advent, Christmas and Epiphany Sermons is unavailable, but you can change that!

Many preachers during Luther’s era did not write their own sermons, so they depended on lessons and sermons from others. Luther considered many of these borrowed sermons not fully evangelical. Thus, he wrote his Postils to provide preachers with biblically sound sermons from which they could preach for each Sunday of the year. In this volume, Luther’s sermons cover the first Sunday in Advent to...

of her clothing she could spare. But that she should have wrapped him in Joseph’s trousers, which are exhibited at Aixla-Chapelle. appears entirely too false and frivolous. It is a fable, the like of which there are more in the world. Is it not strange that the birth of Christ occurs in cold winter, in a strange land, and in such a poor and despicable manner? 13. Some argue as to how this birth took place, as if Jesus was born while Mary was praying and rejoicing, without any pain, and before she
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