To the members of Faith Lutheran: What a week it’s been! Good attendance on Sunday, with at least one new family. The 5-word prayer. Are you doing your homework? Tuesday was Altar Guild training. Wednesday was Sunday School teacher training. And this evening is a big Board of Directors meeting. Praise the Lord! This Sunday […]
To the members of Faith Lutheran: A little note here just for you! I enjoyed an excellent Elders meeting last evening. Thank you, men! This Sunday’s Divine Service theme will be a powerful five-word prayer found in Mark 9. The Lord’s Supper will be served. Let us prepare! And in ABC we’ll talk about God’s […]
“…a broken and contrite heart, O God, You will not despise” (Ps. 51:17). “For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death” (2 Cor. 7:10). The Sacrament of Holy Baptism is the fourth chief part of the Small Catechism – that handbook of our faith and life. […]
“For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ” (Gal. 3:27). Do you really realize what happened in your Baptism? In Luke 8, Jesus heals a demon-possessed man. The first thing we are told about this man is that “For a long time he had worn no clothes” (vs. 27). […]
“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 […]
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 […]