Nathaniel Biebert

Carl Manthey-Zorn delivered this sermon on the bleeding woman and Jairus' daughter (Mt 9:18-26) during the 1910-1911 church year. In a simple way, Zorn shows how Jesus' help of the bleeding woman in her sickness assures us of his help in our sicknesses. He also shows how Jesus' help of Jairus' daughter in her death is only a shadow of the much better help he will give each of us in our death.

The gospel is the joyful and amazingly excellent message that the mind of God towards us lost and condemned sinners is full of grace from eternity. In this article, the retired pastor Carl Manthey-Zorn provides a thorough treatment of the gospel - its scriptural history, divine power, application through faith, and proper use.

Stöckhardt expertly guides the reader through Paul's Greek in Romans 6:3-11. Since Christians are baptized into Christ and also into his death, they have become partakers of his redemption--redemption certainly not only from the guilt, but also from the dominion of sin. And if they are freed from the dominion of sin, then the power of sin is broken in them.

Stöckhardt takes his listeners back to the days of Luther and the selling of indulgences. He praises Luther for cleansing the church of this blasphemy, while condemning the pope for leading countless people to hell on a religion of money and works. Stöckhardt warns us against falling into the greed of the papists, which led them to reject salvation by grace, and he comforts us with the true indulgence – that for Christ’s sake we are freely forgiven.