Redeeming Holy Days-Candlemas/Presentation
Candlemas is February 2nd, forty days after the birth of Christ it is the Festival of the Purification of Mary. The Gospel Lesson…
Candlemas is February 2nd, forty days after the birth of Christ it is the Festival of the Purification of Mary. The Gospel Lesson…
O Come, O Come, Emmanuel Hymn Verse: O Come, O Come, Emmanuel, And ransom captive Israel, That mourns in lonely exile here Until…
Come, Desire Of Nations Hymn Verse: O Come, Desire of nations, bind All peoples in one heart and mind; Bid Thou our sad…
O Come, Thou Dayspring From On High Hymn Verse: O Come, Thou Dayspring from on high, and cheer us by thy drawing nigh;…
O Come, Thou Key of David, Come Hymn Verse: O Come, Thou Key of David, come, And open wide our heav’nly home, Make…
We are reposting this from Dec 4, 2012: Did Christianity Steal the Date of Sol Invictus? The claim is that Sol Invictus…
O Come, Thou Rod of Jesse’s Stem Hymn Verse: O Come, Thou Rod of Jesse’s stem, From ev’ry foe deliver them That trust…
We are reposting this from Dec 3rd, 2012: Of the major Christian Holy Days, Christmas, Easter and Pentecost are the high points…
O Come, O Come, Thou Lord of Might The Hymn: O come, O come, Thou Lord of might, Who to Thy tribes on…
O Come, Thou Wisdom From on High The Hymn: O come, Thou Wisdom from on high, Who orderest all things mightily; To us…
The hymn “O, Come, O, Come, Emmanuel” (TLH 62; LW 31; CW 32; ; ELH 110; LSB 357) is a rendition of the…
Here is a guitar transcription for O Thou That Tellest Good Tidings To Zion from Handel’s Messiah. Midi File Letter size PDF ThouThatTellestGoodTidings
I’m still transcribing a few more parts of the Messiah for use with guitar. Here is a version of And the Glory of…
Our Parish does a Christmas Catechization each year centered around different parts of the Small Catechism. This year the music surrounding the questioning…
Blogger Shane Raynor at Ministry Matters™ recently posted an article titled Millennial Myths and the Real Reasons People Leave the Church. Raynor attempts…
Resources on the History of Halloween Part 1. Origins of All Saint’s Day and the Origins of Samhain This article is an effort…
Responding to some of the comments that came in when we last published this post in Oct of 2012, we are attempting to…
In the first article we looked styles of writing from Akkadian cuneiform, Ugaritic cuneiform, through the development of Proto-Sinaitic and Paleo-Hebrew. As readers…
The Second Commandment. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord, thy God, in vain. What does this mean?–Answer. We should fear…
Making your reading of God’s Word easier. Some people object to underlining, highlighting, or otherwise marking in the text of their Bibles. The…
This is the third article on the Nativity of St. John. This article will deal with the Neo-Pagan practice of claiming Celtic origins,…
The Claims about Pagan Origins for St. John’s Nativity This is the second of three articles on the Nativity of St. John and…
This is the first part of three on the Nativity of St. John the Baptist/Midsummer Day June 24th is celebrated as St. John’s…
Walther’s introduction to his 4th Evening Lecture “When a theologian is asked to yield and make concessions in order that peace may at…
So we can see there is an anti-God bias affected the way academics and popular writers from that time to today portray Christmas,…