Sources
Two published Back to Luther volumes
These pages follow the two published epistle sermon documents and preserve direct attribution to Back to Luther, with German archive links where supplied.
Walther's Sermons
Walther's Epistle Sermons
Read Walther's preaching through the epistle texts of the church year in a dedicated sermon section inside the Hardcore Lutheran Library.
Built from published Back to Luther Part 1 and Part 2 source documents.
About This Collection
Walther's Epistle Sermons
This section gathers Walther's epistle sermons from the Back to Luther published documents and organizes them into individual sermon pages with direct reading links.
Coverage
74 sermon pages
Read through the church year from Advent into Trinity season with Walther's pastoral preaching organized as its own sub-library.
Special Attention
Humiliation and penitence sermons featured
The special days of humiliation and national penitence are called out below so they do not get buried inside the longer sequence.
Featured Penitential Sermons
Days of humiliation and national penitence
These sermons deserve special notice because they bring Walther's pastoral voice to repentance, public chastening, and the mercy of God under judgment.
Featured Sermon
DAY OF HUMILIATION-1
God, holy and righteous God, who art not a God who hath pleasure in unrighteousness, he who is wicked doth not stand in Thy presence; who destroyest them that speak lies and abhorest the bloody and deceitful man, behold', we have gathered h...
Featured Sermon
DAY OF HUMILIATION-2
The text. 1 Peter 4:4. My dear fellow sinners but fellow redeemed hearers. The American nation has been called upon by its government to celebrate a day of thanksgiving. In the past this was different. Then the government called upon our na...
Featured Sermon
DAY OF NATIONAL PENITENCE
Fellow sinners and fellow redeemed brethren in the Lord. The bloody scourge of war has already raged in our country for three whole years, and still there is no prospect of peace. Like a cancerous ulcer the war spread farther and farther; i...
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All epistle sermons
Open the full sequence below to move sermon by sermon through the collection.
1ST SUNDAY IN ADVENT (1)
Romans 13: 11-14
1ST SUNDAY IN ADVENT (2)
Romans 13, 11-14
2ND SUNDAY IN ADVENT
Romans 15: 4-13
3RD SUNDAY IN ADVENT
1 Corinthians 4, 1-5 *
4TH SUNDAY IN ADVENT
Philippians 4, 4-7
CHRISTMAS DAY
Titus 2, 11-14
SECOND CHRISTMAS DAY
1 Timothy 1, 15
SUNDAY AFTER CHRISTMAS
Galatians 4: 1-7
NEW YEAR'S DAY
Galatians 3: 23-29
EPIPHANY SUNDAY (2)
Isaiah 60:1-6.
1ST SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY
Romans 12:1-6
2ND SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY
Romans 12:7-16
3RD SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY (1)
Romans 12:17-21
3RD SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY (2)
Romans 12: 17-21
4TH SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY
Romans 13: 8-11
1ST SUNDAY IN LENT
2 Corinthians 6:1-16.
2ND SUNDAY IN LENT (1)
1 Thessalonians 4:1-7
2ND SUNDAY IN LENT (2)
1 Thessalonians 4:1-7
2ND SUNDAY IN LENT (3)
1 Thessalonians 4:1-7.
3RD SUNDAY IN LENT (1)
Ephesians 5:1-9.
3RD SUNDAY IN LENT (3)
Ephesians 5:1-9.
4TH SUNDAY IN LENT
Galatians 4:21-31
5TH SUNDAY IN LENT
Hebrews 9:11-15
PALM SUNDAY, CONFIRMATION
1 Peter 3:21
MAUNDY THURSDAY (1)
1 Corinthians 11:23-26
MAUNDY THURSDAY (2)
1 Corinthians 11:23-25.
GOOD FRIDAY (1)
Matthew 27: 54; Mark 15: 39; Luke 23: 47 f.
GOOD FRIDAY (2)
Luke 23: 27-48
EASTER SUNDAY (1)
1 Corinthians 5:6-8
EASTER SUNDAY (2)
1 Corinthians 15:55-57.
EASTER MONDAY (1)
Romans 4:25.
EASTER MONDAY (2)
Romans 8:31-34.
1ST SUNDAY AFTER EASTER
Revelation 1:18.
2ND SUNDAY AFTER EASTER — CONFIRMATION
Psalm 100:1-5
3RD SUNDAY AFTER EASTER (1)
1 Peter 2:11-20
4TH SUNDAY AFTER EASTER
James 1:16-21
5TH SUNDAY AFTER EASTER
James 1:22-27
ASCENSION DAY
Acts 1:1-11
SUNDAY AFTER ASCENSION
1 Peter 4:8-11.
PENTECOST (1)
Acts 2:1-13.
PENTECOST (2)
Acts 2:1-13
TRINITY SUNDAY
Ephesians 1: 3-6
1ST SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY 1
Jn 4:16-21
2ND SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY
1 John 3:13-18
3RD SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY
Matthew 18:20
4TH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY
Romans 14:14-23
5ΤΗ SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY
1 Peter 3:8-15
6TH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY
Luke 7:1-7
7ΤΗ SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY
Romans 6:19-23
8TH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY
Romans 8:12-17.
9TH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY
1 Corinthians 10:6-13
11TH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY-2
1 Corinthians 15:1-10
11TH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY-3
1 Corinthians 15:1-10
12TH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY-1
2 Corinthians 3:4-11
12TH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY-2
2 Corinthians 3:4-11.
13TH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY-2
Galatians 3:15-22
14TH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY-1
Galatians 5:16-24
14TH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY-2
Galatians 5:16-24
15TH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY
Galatians 5:26 -6:10
16TH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY
Ephesians 3:13-21
17TH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY
Ephesians 4:1-6
18TH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY-1
1 Corinthians 1:4-9
18TH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY-2
1 Corinthians 1:4-9
19TH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY
Ephesians 4:22-28
20TH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY-1
Ephesians 5: 1 5-21
20TH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY-2
Ephesians 5:15-21
21ST SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY-2
Ephesians 6:10-17
22ND SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY
Philippians 1:3-11.
23RD SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY
Philippians 3:17-21
REFORMATION DAY-1
Jude 3
REFORMATION DAY-2
Deuteronomy 4:7-8
DAY OF HUMILIATION-1
2 Corinthians 12:20-21
DAY OF HUMILIATION-2
1 Peter 4:4
DAY OF NATIONAL PENITENCE
1 Chronicles 21:9-14