In this week’s installment from Off the Record with Martin Luther, Luther writes about counseling those who are troubled by the preaching of the Word:

“3188. If someone laments that he was so troubled by a sermon that he had to leave, comfort him so: ‘God receives two kinds of offerings, one is praise, and the other is a shattered heart.'” (p. 221)

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