Who Are These Candidates, Really?
This is a presidential election year. There have been so many candidates. People wanted to know, who are these people, really? Who are…
This is a presidential election year. There have been so many candidates. People wanted to know, who are these people, really? Who are…
In the early seventies my Grandpa bought a 1951 Ford 8N tractor. The “N” series tractor still holds the record as the best…
When I go out of town I love to read the newspaper, particularly when I’m in a small, isolated, rural community. You get…
“Friend, Move Up Higher” (Luke 14:1-14) Suppose you’re invited to a banquet–a wedding banquet, for instance–so you get dressed up in your best…
The Gospel Notes for the Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity from the Lutheran Service Book’s One-Year Lectionary is now available. You may download the…
They were watching Him, but their eyes couldn’t see His heart. There were listening, but their ears were deaf to His Word. It is the Sabbath and the teacher has been invited to a ruler of the Pharisees house for the traditional “Sabbath meal”. They were watching Him closely. “Jesus was not invited as a friend, but how He might be sized up, trapped, used.” They were watching Him closely when all of a sudden in walks a man with dropsy. We would call it edema today. He was bloated. His flesh full of water. His status “unclean.”
Introduction: Learn 29 hymns in 2 years! Not just any hymns, but good, faithful, Lutheran hymns! I know. It sounds like some gimmicky…
Everyone is seemingly getting ready for the Reformation. Augustana Lutheran Church in Hickory, North Carolina has created these shirts and are making them…
Every day it was right there in black and white except for Sundays, on Sunday’s it was in bright brilliant color. Every day, a man named Gary Larson would give me and anyone who cared to look, a picture of the far side, a window, if you will into a world full of irony, humor, and flat out hilarious absurdities. How many deer are born with a perfect bull’s eye for a birth mark? How many poodles actually plot the death of their master and then lament that the pampering will end?
“Strive to Enter through the Narrow Door” (Luke 13:22-30) Suppose there’s a big party, a grand banquet that you’ve heard about, and you…
In today’s Holy Gospel (Mark 7:31-37), our Lord shows us how profoundly our hearing affects us. Before he’d heard God’s Word, the man…
The Gospel Notes for the Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity from the Lutheran Service Book’s One-Year Lectionary is now available. You may download the…
The Gospel Notes for the Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity from the Lutheran Service Book’s One-Year Lectionary is now available. You may download the…
“Filius ita factus est homo, ut a spiritu sancto sine virili opera conciperetur et ex Maria pura, sancta, semper virgine nasceretur…” Dass der…
Found over on blogs.lcms.org: Over the past year, as legal changes and pressures have increased, many have been asking and waiting for help…
“Fire, Distress, and Division: This Is the Gospel of the Lord?” (Luke 12:49-53) “‘I came to cast fire on the earth. How great…
“The world is indeed a sick thing; it is the kind of fur on which neither hide no hair is any good. The…
Maybe you’re a little like me and are longing for the day when the current “presidential” election is over. How low can we…
Another great post found over on GottesdienstOnline: If you open up your Bible and pray the Psalms you might come across this…
“Do Not Be Anxious: Faith Overcomes Fear” (Luke 12:22-34) “Do not be anxious. Do not be worried. Fear not.” That’s what Jesus says…
The Gospel Notes for the Twelfth Sunday after Trinity from the Lutheran Service Book’s One-Year Lectionary is now available. You may download the…
Whenever I hear someone say, “don’t worry” I start to worry. Maybe I wasn’t worried to begin with but now that someone said it out loud I worry that maybe I should be worried about something, maybe there’s something I don’t know, something I should know. Maybe there’s something I did or didn’t do or something I should or shouldn’t do. In our text this morning (evening) Jesus says, “do not worry.” Some translations have the word “anxious” instead of worry but you get the point. Jesus is identifying something that’s going on in our heart and mind that we might not be paying attention to. He’s is placing His Word on a sore spot. By saying it out loud He not only brings it to our attention but then sets out to remedy it.
Luther’s Small Catechism is a prayer book. It is “a spiritual companion on a man’s journey from cradle to grave; the Christian’s daily…
Two Overtures to the 2016 synodical convention of the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod presented questions concerning a paper by Dr. Jeffrey Kloha…