Adapted from the November/December 1949 Immanuel Lutheran, by Pastor G. W. Fischer; submitted to the Lutheran Spokesman by current Immanuel pastor, Wayne Eichstadt It is the day before Christmas, 1534.  The scene is the ancient Augustinian monastery in Wittenberg. The monastery had only recently become a Lutheran parsonage. In the kitchen of the large, massive… Read More »A Christmas Hymn Is Born Read More