In this way, the Christian church takes the time which God has created and offers it to God through Christ who has redeemed it. The daily an...

If we are sheep, we conquer; if we become wolves we are overcome. So long as we continue to behave as sheep, we are victorious. Even if ten ...

God chose the time for time and eternity to meet, and time can never be the same again. The liturgy of the Christian Church recognizes this ...

The reason, you see, that they had despaired of Christ was that they had seen him dead. He, however, opened the Scriptures to them, so that ...

In denying that sexual life, as we now understand it, makes any part of the final beatitude, it is not of course necessary to suppose that t...

Fellowship between orthodox and heterodox produces the following result: the orthodox become more indifferent to the errors of the heterodox...

Nothing has the nature of a Sacrament apart from the use instituted by Christ or apart from the action divinely instituted… The use or actio...

The evangelists have the first great characteristic of honest witnesses: they mention facts which are, at first sight, damaging to their mai...

Wherever Christ’s Word is still valued and reverenced, Christ has His believers, even if false preachers pervert and falsify it. Christ is n...

Christ’s command “This do” must be observed unseparated and inviolate. This embraces the entire action or administration in this Sacrament. ...

A man really ought to say, ‘The Resurrection happened two thousand years ago’ in the same spirit in which he says, ‘I saw a crocus yesterday...

Only one thing is necessary to belong to the one flock that saves. A person must listen to the voice of Christ and recognize Him as the only...

I was privileged to preach at a Bach Easter Vespers at Concordia Seminary today. The readings were for last Sunday (Quasimodogeniti) as was ...

…in Jamaica. Not long, but it was completely relaxing. The water at our resort was more like a lake than the Caribbean Sea (due to the coral...

…to this young lady. Each year she is blessed with turning a year older some six months before I do. Love you to the moon and back, Cindi. I...

Megan blessed us with this lovely version of Handel . 

We gathered in the school courtyard for the blessing of the new fire, which I attempted to capture on my iPhone. You can watch it here . Aft...

…woke up by 5. Made pot of coffee and drank it. Prayed Matins. Read my Book of Concord, some Lewis, and some Walther. Then 30 minutes of HII...

…this picture. It was Thanksgiving in 1980. I believe my friend, Linda Hayes, took it for us. And it reminded me we have only two pictures t...

… miss you, my brother!