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The Brotherhood Prayer Book: Text Edition – Now Available for Kindle and Nook
After numerous requests for an e-reader version of The Brotherhood Prayer Book: Text Edition, it is finally available for Kindle and Nook!
The Brotherhood Prayer Book: Text Edition is a book of prayers centered around the entire 150 Psalms. It includes liturgies for Matins, Lauds, Sext, Vespers, English Compline, Latin Compline, German Compline, and more. It also contains a full set of propers for the Liturgical Week, the Liturgical Year, and Saints’ Days. Another highlight is the Beichtspiegel unique to The Brotherhood Prayer Book. This “confession mirror” is a tool used for reflection and self-examination in preparation for private confession and absolution or for the Divine Service.
Thy Kingdom Come: An Excerpt from Ascension
“God’s will is constant. Fallen men need a preaching of repentance, an exposure of our complicity and selfishness, a warning of impending death, and an invitation. You are not God. You do not make the rules. You have not behaved in ways honorable or just or good. You have looked the other way. You have cheated. You are a traitor to your own cause, in league with demons, a pervert, a deviant, a sycophant, a liar, a braggart, a hypocrite, a bureaucrat. Repent. Submit. Stop making excuses. Do not seek to have your sins justified, but seek instead to have them forgiven, removed, and counted against Him, that His good works might be counted to you.”
-David H. Petersen, author of Thy Kingdom Come
Katie Schuermann reviews Thy Kingdom Come
Katie Schuermann, of He Remembers the Barren, relates how her morning run was stopped dead in its tracks while listening to an Issues Etc. podcast which reviewed a sermon by Pr. Petersen:
“I noticed that I had slowed down. In fact, I was standing still on the curb, looking up the street but seeing nothing. Well, I was seeing something. I was seeing my reflection in Rev. Petersen’s words, and it wasn’t pretty. It’s never pretty when you stare your Sin in the face, when your conscience plays chicken with a Law-wielding pastor. This guy was telling me that I turn everything, even Scripture, into something about myself. And he was right.
My Old Adam lay slain on the pavement….
With the blessed Word, this Midwestern pastor had gunned down the black heart of an insignificant pastor’s wife way down below the Mason-Dixon line and then resuscitated it back to life with the precious, life-giving blood of Christ, all within a span of a few minutes.
Needless to say, I didn’t get much of a workout that day, but I did start downloading more Issues, Etc. episodes, especially the ones with the word ‘Petersen’ in the tag line.”
Read her entire review here.
Last Day to Pre-Order Thy Kingdom Come
Tomorrow is the official release date for Thy Kingdom Come, which makes today the last day to pre-order a signed copy! Of course, if you live in or near Fort Wayne or if you’re coming to the Symposia, there will be other chances to have Pr. Petersen sign your book. But still, go ahead and order now! That way you’ll be ready to read the sermon for the Confession of St. Peter on January 18.
Adriane Dorr reviews Thy Kingdom Come
If there was ever any question as to where Adriane Dorr gets her quirky sense of humor, take a look at her dad in the picture at left.
All hilarity aside, Adriane gets to the point in her review of Thy Kingdom Come. We have posted an excerpt here, but you really should read the entire review, including her 5 good reasons why you need this book.
“[W]hen I’m in the Divine Service, when my Lord is there for me really and bodily, I need to hear that I stink, that I’m an awful sinner, that I need to be humbled at every turn. I need to hear that He’s forgiven me for all those things, that the way in which He loved me was to die for me, that He is my comfort and peace, that He fills all the gaps and the holes I didn’t even know I had and the ones I’m painfully aware of.
That’s why I joined Pastor David Petersen’s church when I moved to Fort Wayne. His preaching had its own reputation. I knew he would preach what I needed to hear, not what I wanted to hear.
I wasn’t disappointed. And now, thanks to Emmanuel Press, you don’t have to move to Fort Wayne and join Redeemer in order to get those same sermons, to hear of your sin and your salvation….
It’s the start of a new year. So if you set one resolution, let it be that you order this book. Use it as your devotions leading up to Lent and Easter. Let the Law have its way with you. Be pointed to Christ, your salvation. Look to the cross. See your Savior, your Life. For “He is in our midst, according to His promise, in His risen, living, physical body, speaking peace, forgiving sins, feeding saints, and encouraging faith. No locked doors, no synodical bureaucrat, no bully, no fallen flesh will keep Him out’ (Thy Kingdom Come).”
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