I just have to tell you how proud I am of David and Bekah for their work in the play. One of our members sat beside me at intermission and ...

When Christ announces that He is the Good Shepherd and the Good Shepherd lays down His life for the sheep, he is teaching us that He is the ...

It was in the year 1915 on St. Valentine's Day that your godly parents, Alberta, picked up their child, Albert, and carried him to the ...

Thou, who desirest the salvation of the sons of men, have compassion on this soul that has withdrawn from Thee. Accept her, O Lord, with Th...

As I've read blogs, listened to radio shows, and read papers dealing with how the Orthodox teach about salvation, I have at times felt m...

...what it looks like out the backdoor, one of the kids (I think David) took this pic the other day:

Tonight Metro East Lutheran High School's drama department put on Fiddler on the Roof. It was fabulous. But I am no doubt prejudiced: ...

To Thee, O Victor pierced by nails on the cross Who calleth out ot sinners saying: come, receive forgiveness freely - to Thee I unrelenting...

I bow down to Thee, O Master; I bless Thee, O Good One; I beseech Thee, O Holy One; I fall down before Thee, O Lover of Mankind; and I glori...

Effects comprise all created things in heaven and earth, while the causes that have brought them into being are the three Persons of the Hol...

[The following thoughts were shared with a friend a few months ago; I post them in full here as a fuller explanation of my thoughts on the s...

But it is not only the martyrs who share in his passion by their glorious courage! The same is true, by faith, of all who are born again in ...

All the achievements of the saints were clearly gifts of grace from God. None of the saints had the least thing other than the goodness gra...

"Sometimes this was a positive influence, but it also happened that being too intellectual got in the way of knowing God, of believing ...

In that dreadful place of night where He had tarried for three long days, He retained inviolate the splendor of His majesty and shone with t...

Here's a link to a fine homily by Father James Shadid from St. George's Cathedral in Wichita, KS. I found it quite comforting. You...

Did you catch the pattern? Sunday. Disciples gathered. Doors shut. Jesus. The sight of His wounds in a living body. Overflowing joy. A commi...

The purifying Spirit came upon a virgin within whom the Word was formed into a man, the total price of redemption for the total mortal man. ...

From dirt to mud, then back to dust again. For earth is reunited again with earth, and in earthly swaddling clothes is swaddled, and dirt on...

Paul cried with all exactness of truth, "For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall also be in the lik...