Month: April 2018

15
Apr

Little Children

“Little children, let no one deceive you” (1 John 3:7). Seven times in his first epistle, the apostle John uses the term of endearment “little children.”  He was probably in his eighties when he wrote 1 John.  He was a true spiritual father to the Christians in Asia Minor, and he IS the same to […]

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11
Apr

Sixth and Seventh Petitions

For the record, during Holy Week we did not meditate on a part of the Small Catechism.  Then last week I gave a little sermon on the Sixth Petition.  That brings us to the Seventh Petition, about which I have said and written much over the past year.  In this final petition we look ahead […]

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