New Lutheran Quote of the Day

The vestments help us forget the man who is in them and focus on the words the Lord is speaking to us by His use of the mouth that He has put there.  The Lord puts His seeds into your soil.  With His words He is sowing into you what those words say and convey with their potential fruit.  Thus to be receiving into us, from outside ourselves, His words with what they say and bestow, that is one of the glories of our liturgy and Lutheran heritage.  -- Dr. Norman Nagel, Selected Sermons, p. 366.