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Now Available for Pre-order: Easter-Book by Friedrich Lochner
After publishing Passion-Book in 2025, we are now pleased to offer its companion: Easter-Book by Friedrich Lochner, translated by Matthew Carver.
This book provides 40 devotional readings for the 40 joyful days from Easter Day to the Ascension which contemplate our resurrected Lord’s appearances to His disciples before His ascension. Available for the first time in English, Easter-Book is compiled from the Gospels and Acts, combined with corresponding hymn stanzas and closing prayers. Find a description, detailed information, and excerpts here. (Note the special offer to buy both books together for 10% off.)
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An endorsement from Pr. Stephen Preus of Village Lutheran Church in Ladue, MO:
“Pastor Friedrich Lochner’s Easter-Book is an edifying forty-day devotional that focuses especially on the bodily resurrection of our Lord and its overflowing benefits for every Christian.
“A worthy companion to his Passion-Book, Lochner uses the biblical accounts of Christ’s resurrection to instruct Christians. Applying the lessons learned by saints like Mary Magdalene, Peter, and John, Lochner builds up our faith to see why our Lord’s resurrection is so vital for us each day. The meditations also help dispel false ideas of the resurrection, convict us of our misguided reason and human wisdom, encourage us in the new life we have in Christ, and, most of all, shower upon us the comfort of our Savior’s love and the bountiful blessings that arise from His vicarious victory over Satan, sin, and the grave.
“As in his Passion-Book, Lochner draws from Lutheran orthodoxy throughout, providing meditations, hymns, and prayers that bolster our common confession of the faith in our Lord’s resurrection. A thank you to Matthew Carver for his translation, which now supplies the Church today with easily digestible daily devotionals to help us celebrate in our homes and congregations the death of death and the Life in Christ that never ends.”
Now Available: The Great Works of God: Numbers
“The eighth volume of Valerius Herberger’s The Great Works of God, expounding the Book of Numbers, offers a richly devotional reading of Scripture that is at once profound and remarkably accessible. Moving meditation by meditation, Herberger unfolds the Book of Numbers as a sustained witness to Christ, presenting each passage in vivid, pastoral prose that invites rather than intimidates the reader. His style—warm, direct, and highly aware of history and literature—makes even dense theological reflection approachable for lay Christians, guiding them into a deeper love for Holy Scripture without requiring technical expertise.
“In an age often divided between academic analysis and spiritual reading, Herberger demonstrates that careful interpretation and heartfelt piety belong together. This edition makes a significant early modern voice available to the benefit of pastors preparing sermons, fathers leading home devotions, instructors engaging in classroom lectures, and any Christian who seeks to find Christ in the Book of Numbers.”
Rev. Jacob H. Benson — Assistant Professor of Humanities, Luther Classical College
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*Special thanks to the M.Div. class of 2026 of Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, for commissioning the translation of The Great Works of God: The Mysteries of Christ in the Book of Numbers as their class gift.
Anointed with Ashes
An excerpt from Thy Kingdom Come: Lent and Easter Sermons by David H. Petersen
“Your ashes are smeared today. There is no beauty in them. The world cannot see anything in them but an ugly smudge of dirt and death. But for those with the eyes of faith, they are in the form of a cross, that most lovely and dear of all symbols, that emblem of our hope.
“We set our faces toward Jerusalem today. We turn our backs on sin. We look through the gallows on Golgotha and see the glory of the cross enlightening the empty tomb. He has been lifted up from the earth to draw us to Him, to drain the Law’s accusing power, to empty hell’s claim, to crush the devil’s head, to bestow peace upon the meek.
“You are a holy people, anointed with ashes. You belong to the Lord. His mark and name are upon you. This is what it is to be sanctified, to be holy. You are forgiven, to be sure, but there is more than that. You are not only forgiven, or just made even with God, as though you never did anything wrong, and that is that. There is more. For not only has your debt been wiped out, but there is a credit to your account. You aren’t just even; you are holy. You belong to Him. You have the superabundance of His good works counting as your own, and the earth, indeed all of the universe, is your inheritance.
“So remember that you are dust and that you will return to dust. But remember also that God is a man, dust like you, joined to your temptations and sorrow, welded to your death, who was roasted to death in the Father’s wrath, reduced to ashes, and laid to rest in God’s good acre as a ransom, a whole burnt offering. That man is risen again from the dead and has come forth from the earth like a plant in the spring, that He would be your God. Turn your back on sin. Turn toward the Lord and His mercy. For here is peace and joy. Here is hope and faith.”
O Perfect Life of Love: Daily Lenten Meditations on J.S. Bach’s St. John Passion
Thy Kingdom Come: An Excerpt from Septuagesima
“The main point of the parable is that entrance into the kingdom comes by grace. The workers are rewarded for work they did not perform. This is hardly a surprise to us; in fact, we practically expect it.
“G.K. Chesterton once said, ‘Do not be proud of the fact that your grandmother was shocked at something which you are accustomed to seeing or hearing without being shocked…It may be that your grandmother was an extremely lively and vital animal and that you are a paralytic.’
“Chesterton has in mind immoral things. He means, ‘Don’t think you are more sophisticated than your grandmother because you watch television shows full of vulgarities and aren’t bothered by them. It could be that she was highly intelligent and sensitive and you have been paralyzed by evil so much that you don’t even notice it.’
“The same sort of numbness applies to the Gospel as well. I fear that it is even worse. We’re not just numb, but we’ve crossed over the line drawn by Bonhoeffer into ‘cheap grace.’ I fear we’re now guilty of thinking grace is worse than cheap; it is a right, an entitlement, as though God owed us salvation. Repent.”
–These are the first 4 paragraphs from the sermon for Septuagesima, based on Matthew 20:1-16. Find Thy Kingdom Come here.
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