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Luther’s Catechetical Writings: God’s Call to Repentance, Faith and Prayer is unavailable, but you can change that!

This book contains Luther’s small and large catechisms, which grew out of practical religious needs, and ultimately out of the institution of the confessional. He was grieved by what he considered the spiritual wretchedness of Christians, and he saw it as his duty to teach them the doctrine of eternal salvation. These catechisms were meant both for schoolchildren and for adults, and Luther...

knave, remains in authority. Like the Jews, they release the robber Barabbas and kill the grace of God, the innocent Son of God, who had begun to grow in them. The Psalm (106:13) speaks of them: “They waited not for his counsel,” that is, they would not suffer what God purposed to do with them. 97. The pious are wise and well understand of what use the divine will—that is, trouble of every kind—is, and also know well how they ought to receive it and act in it. They know that no enemy has ever been
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