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.”