The Festival of the Reformation (transferred)29 October, Anno Domini 2023St. John 8:31-36 Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Freed sons and daughters of the Most High God, Everywhere … Continued
The Twentieth Sunday after Trinity 22 October, Anno Domini 2023St. Matthew 22:1-14 Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Beloved in the Lord, In today’s appointed Gospel we hear Jesus … Continued
When someone like the king invites you to his table to celebrate, you go. We can imagine this. If some famous or powerful person invited us today to eat at their house, we would move heaven and earth to get … Continued
The Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity15 October, Anno Domini 2023St. Matthew 9:1-8 Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Dear forgiven of the Lord, We have all been in those … Continued
Our lives know a great deal of suffering. And we would love for God to take the crosses away so that the earthly suffering could stop. The paralyzed man who was brought to Jesus certainly would have been looking for … Continued
Our goal in this life is not to be exalted either in the eyes of God or in the eyes of man. Any glory that is bestowed upon us is glory that is robbed from Christ to whom alone belongs … Continued
The Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity1 October, Anno Domini 2023St. Luke 14:1-11 Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Beloved saints of the most High God, The Pharisees’ encounter with … Continued
“The eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous, and His ears toward their cry.” (Palm 34:15) God does not pay attention to those who desperately seek to prove to Him how and good and healthy they are. They have … Continued
The Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity 24 September, Anno Domini 2023 St. Luke 7:11-17 Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Beloved in the Lord, “Do not weep.” If you’re … Continued
Death brings sadness. It doesn’t matter how much we want to pretend that it’s natural. It doesn’t matter that we don’t want people to be sad when we are gone. They will be. We will be sad when our loved … Continued