Year: 2018

20
Sep

Faith Is a Candle

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 […]

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14
Sep

The Gospel of Spit

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 […]

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16
May

Good Grief

“…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.  […]

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02
May

Wearing Christ

“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).  […]

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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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