Daily Reading

From today's reading

1 John 2.1 My little children, I am writing this to you so that you may not sin; but if any one does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous...

My readings include a snipet from Henry Melchoir Muhlenberg (1711-1787) Journals from February of 1754...

The kernel of the sainted Luther's teaching is unknown in many parts of the
Evangelical Church, an it is mutilated in practice. If Luther himself, the
excellent man, reappeared, without being recognized, and began to teach in many
places as he once taught in the Symbolical Books, in his Preface to the Epistle
to the Romans, in his Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians, and in other
evangelical writings, he would be denounced as a Pietist and Enthusiast and
chased to his fellows in hell. It seems as if the world does not wish to
have anything to do with the whole of true Christianity; it wants either
godliness without change of heart and faith, or faith without preceding change
of heart and consequent sanctification; and regards this or that as
orthodoxy. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put
asunder.