The first Christians also lived from nothing else than the daily forgiveness of their sins, as we confess in the Small Catechism... The holi...

"Sing to the Lord a new song. Sing to the Lord all the earth." For God has cheered our hearts and minds through His dear Son, whom...

[Okay, okay, NOT a Father, but from the TIME of the Fathers] They [the Christians] were accustomed to meet on a fixed day before dawn and ...

On Monday morning we sang the appointed Psalm 145 and the verses struck me as very fitting:  "One generation shall commend Your works t...

Cindi and I were talking this morning. I told her: "It's almost Friday and you know what that means?" She got that look. ...

Doxology then can only be performed where the glory of God dwells. Since the resurrection and ascension of the incarnate Son of God, the g...

Just as Christ was sent by the Father and came into the world not by a change of place but by the assumption of the flesh and visible appear...

Such writings are read with the right of judgment, and without any obligation to believe. In order to leave room for such profitable discuss...

But the vital question for a church is not so much whether it will continue to live, but whether it will remain that which it has been and w...

God's wonderful works which happen daily are lightly esteemed, not because they are of no import, but because they happen so constantly ...

For the Artificer of all things, Wisdom, i. e., the Son, made that which was a machination of devilish perversity, I mean His Death in the F...

on the fourth commandment, based on Luke 2:41ff.: Mary in her love for Him had been terrified—what parent wouldn’t be? A teen vanished fo...

Friday night we ended up playing Pinochle. Don't ask. It was ugly. But we had lots of fun and laughter with Crys and Scott DESPITE the w...

today (falls today in the one-year series). I could sing "O Wondrous Type" every single day—a winner in both text and tune. Pastor...

in our President's words today as we come to the 40th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade? "This is our first task as a society – keeping...

Dr. John Stephenson, asked if the LCMS had prepared any resources for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, a week many Christians observe...

After Church, eight of us (David, Meaghan, Shawn, Bekah, Dave, Jo, Cindi and I) sat down to dinner. Jo's 73rd, so she got to choose: spa...

I attended my old Winkel today. Pastor Heath Curtis led a beautiful Divine Service, anticipating the commemoration of the Cappadocians. Afte...

I think that it is nigh onto robbery when pastors deprive their congregations of praying the Preface and singing the Sanctus. Here is the ...