Epistle Sermons

Martin Luther's Epistle Sermons from Trinity Sunday through Advent offers a vivid, pastorally charged guide to the Christian life, translated and introduced for English readers by Prof. John Nicholas Lenker. Intended as a devotional companion for homes, congregations, and individual believers, the volume presents Luther as a clear, warm, and urgent teacher whose sermons bring Scripture into daily life and stand as a major pillar of Protestant devotional literature. From the opening meditation on Romans 11, the sermons move through the church year with a steady focus on worship, faith, and the believer's hope in Christ. Luther begins with the mystery of the Trinity, insisting that God's nature can be known only through Scripture and the Holy Spirit, not by human reason. He contrasts divine revelation with worldly logic, outward holiness, and self-made righteousness, and repeatedly returns to the saving work of Christ's incarnation, death, and resurrection. Across the sermons, he explores God's mercy toward the humble, the danger of idolatry and unbelief, Israel's murmuring in the wilderness, and the bronze serpent as a sign of salvation. The result is a forceful call to trust God's Word, reject pride, and live by faith in Christ alone. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.