For where peace is, there is Christ, for Christ is Peace; and where righteousness is, there is Christ, for Christ is Righteousness.—Ambrose ...

On the tenth day of Christmas...the Weedons finally sat down to write their Christmas newsletter!  The year in review: Grandchildren ...

I had saved up a lot of vacation time this year and ended up taking it all. So I was basically off from the evening of December 11 through t...

Well, it started on St. Stephen's Day and it lasted until the sunset of Holy Innocents: a rain like I don't ever remember experienci...

The beauty of the Midnight Divine Service, the overflowing joy of the Christmas Day Divine Liturgy! Aside from the high points of the Script...

...God is man, man to deliver / And His Son / Now is one / With our blood forever.

In my old German Bible from CPH, the day of Nicholas the Bishop is provided with an epistle from 2 Corinthians 1:7–9. The Gospel is Luke 12:...

...recorded earlier today to share with my oldest daughter on FB: http://youtu.be/g21pkJYMWFg

With the setting of the sun tonight, Advent begins. The older I get, the more I welcome and love the penitential seasons. The collect (praye...

...the front part of the house was built by mom's grandfather, "Daddy Jim," and my grandfather was born here in 1885. The midd...

Turkey is in oven, table set, wine prepared, cheese (brie, plain and herbed, and 2 year aged cheddar) and smoked sockeye salmon ready for ap...

...this side of the Parousia. We attended early service at St. Paul's this a.m. I was already looking forward to it, for I love the read...

...all ready for Church on Sunday of the Fulfillment. 

...a brisk walk in the cold, lots of time for reading and chatting, tasty leftovers, a roaring fire and a happy dog.  Life is good.

has posted a couple links that may prove beneficial. They are very short table devotions, one for Thanksgiving Day and one for the season of...

...to a real vacation. Before I'm done work this week: four more radio shows for Thy Strong Word (Isaiah 11–14), two Issues Etc. shows (...

Matthew Carver (he of the Walther Hymnal and the Herberger goodies) shared with me his latest: Saints Maurice and Catherine DAILY LECTIONARY...

Essays in Hono(u)r of Norman Nagel on the Occasion of His Nintieth Birthday. I'm privileged to have authored one of those. You can order...

Years ago... the basement was filled with folks peeling and slicing apples to make homemade applesauce. David and Lauren and Bekah would use...

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