Festival of All Saints
When you are training yourself in a skill, especially when that training is physically or mentally exhausting, it is important to keep the end goal in mind. We should know what it is that we are putting in all the … Continued
Festival of the Reformation 2023
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
Twentieth Sunday after Trinity 2023
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
Twentieth Sunday after Trinity
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
Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity 2023
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
Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity
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
Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity
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
Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity 2023
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
Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity
“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
Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity 2023
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