…partially set for our post-church luncheon: See that little bit of bench sticking out? It hit me today that the man who made it, my grandmo...

…the joy of a Sunday afternoon with Luther’s Postils, might I heartily commend this old practice to you? Many a Lutheran in years of old wou...

…waiting for Cindi to get in (let the married men understand…) to head up to Church, I was just overwhelmed this morning with the realizatio...

Definitely a more laid back month for workouts, with the MWF pattern for pushups, pullups, and kettlebell swings. Missed one Friday and Mond...

This name reveals the unity of the divine incarnation. For in this unity he who is God suffered in the flesh, and although man, he is King o...

Holy Baptism was won for us through that blood which He shed for us when He paid for our sin. This blood and the merit and power of it He ha...

We also say that love ought to follow faith, as Paul also says in Galatians 5:6: “For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcisio...

…about a nice thunderstorm on a summer afternoon? I just find it so peaceful. Very thankful, however, that we were able to get the grass cut...

For in the present age Babylon is always going into destruction and burning up in part, just as Jerusalem is moving into paradise in those s...

Citing St. Augustine  By the Law we fear God; by faith we hope in God. But to those fearing punishment grace is hidden. And the soul laborin...

If a man has fallen into sin, he should think most intensely of his baptism, of how God there promised to forgive all his sin, if he would f...

Rather, this is the city of all the proud and arrogant, which Cain established by the blood of his brother and which he named after the name...

The names of all the virtues are names of God.—Exposition of the Lord’s Prayer for Simple Lay-folk, 1519

Paul sets forth in the third chapter: “For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law” (Romans 3:28). The adversarie...

Yet she is! Happy birthday Evangeline!!!

This angel who is strong and brightens the earth may be regarded as both the Lord incarnate himself as well as the teachers of the church wh...

The meaning of this word is a blessed dying unto sin and a rising in the grace of God, so that the old man conceived and born in sin is drow...

We understand justification as the making of a righteous person out of an unrighteous one, or that a person is regenerated.—Ap IV:78

…off, since my colleague, Craig, is away from the office. I’ll happily take this four day weekend to replace that wretched week when I was s...

For in the world there are two cities, one that arises from the abyss and the other that comes down from heaven. And so now he compares the ...