of the season spotted tonight while taking Lucy out for her necessities.  Last year seemed like we had LOTS of them around.  I'm curious...

In our spiritual journey from the font to the grave, we walk before God the Father as beggars.  Yet that is only half the story.  We may be ...

Christ and grace are not preached so that people may remain in their sins.  On the contrary, the Christian doctrine teaches:  You have been ...

"He has converted my soul: He has led me forth in the paths of righteousness, for His Name's sake" Psalm 22:3. He has brought ...

The Feast of our Lord's Ascension into heaven will be celebrated this Thursday (June 2) at St. Paul's with Divine Service at 7:15 a....

Up early this morning to Edwardsville to let Roger kick our rears at Bootcamp.  Home for breakfast and then began setting up pool - I don...

from Pr. Buetow:  "How good to have a Lord whose first miracle was an open bar at a wedding!" 

Evermore and evermore.  When the Bride insists, absolutely insists, that at her wedding we have to sing all about Jesus, about ...

and so Easter is fast waning.  This Thursday is the Feast of the Ascension (7:15 p.m. at St. Paul's - you all come now, you hear?).  Uni...

...and it looks to be shaping up amazingly:  Walther . Check out the trailer!  John will be leading the Bible Class on this when it is relea...

Through the attacks of the evil one we are drawn further out of ourselves and deeper into Christ. -- Dr. John Kleinig, *Grace upon Grace* p....

These two things, diligently preaching and earnestly praying, pierce the devil's heart. -- Blessed Martin Luther, Homily for Rogate (HP ...

For, behold, we take divine Scripture, and thence discourse with freedom of the religious Faith, and set it up as a light upon its candlesti...

...Pr. Kress baptized his youngest granddaughter.  He and Lisa look mighty proud:

...from Pr. David Petersen on pastoral social conventions in the LCMS.  I smiled as I read it and thought how Pr. Plvan will never be ...

Yeah, it's still a bit cold outside, but we hope to get the pool up this weekend.  We picked up a new salt-water system at Walmart this ...

The devil's attack on us serves to strengthen our faith because it drives us back to God's Word as the only basis for our spiritual ...

Our need to pray in the face of immanent peril is great, for a Christian is never safe from the devil and his own flesh, from falling into s...

He (our Lord) neither suffered Himself to be taken before the time came, nor did He hide Himself when it had come; but gave Himself up to th...

who came out this week to help with Jo's transition from hospital to home (with a trip to the emergency room thrown in there).  It was v...