OUR TIMES ARE IN HIS HAND
“Printing is the ultimate gift of God and the greatest one.” — Martin Luther “What the world is today, good and bad, it owes to Gutenberg. Everything can be traced to this source, but we are bound to...
View ArticleBREAD OF LIFE READINGS NOVEMBER 2023
TLH = The Lutheran Hymnal, 1941; WS = Worship Supplement 2000; LSB = Lutheran Service Book, 2006 Date Hymns Reading Comments November 1 TLH 645 / LSB 359 Zechariah 3 Zechariah records a vision of...
View ArticleMILES OF HEAVEN TO COME
Heaven brings to mind warm and pleasant thoughts. Even for one who has a non-Biblical concept of “heaven,” heaven is not, “Ugh, I don’t want to go there.” The true heaven, the Scriptural heaven, is...
View ArticleBREAD OF LIFE READINGS, DECEMBER 2023
TLH = The Lutheran Hymnal, 1941; WS = Worship Supplement 2000; LSB = Lutheran Service Book, 2006 Date Hymns Reading Comments December 1 TLH 81/LSB 372 1 Corinthians 1 Paul and Sosthenes greet the...
View ArticleCOMFORTABLE?
Are you comfortable right now? We are willing to go a long way to feel comfortable. We like to wear “comfy” clothes and sit in comfortable chairs. For car owners living in colder climates this time of...
View ArticleBREAD OF LIFE READINGS, JANUARY 2024
The Bread of Life Bread of Life Readings, January 2024 TLH = The Lutheran Hymnal, 1941; WS = Worship Supplement 2000; LSB = Lutheran Service Book, 2006 Date Hymns Reading Comments January 1 TLH 123/LSB...
View ArticleSOLUTIONS FOR BROKEN RESOLUTIONS
I don’t recall ever making a New Year’s resolution. Perhaps I had to come up with one as a school assignment once but, if so, I certainly never tried to accomplish it. The whole practice seems rather...
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SHARED TEMPTATIONS
Matthew 4:1-11, Mark 1:12-13, and Luke 4:1-13 all relate the strange case of Jesus’ temptations in the wilderness, which occurred at the start of His public ministry. Jesus had been led into this...
View ArticleTHE BREAD OF LIFE READINGS, MARCH 2024
THE BREAD OF LIFE The Bread of Life Readings, March 2024 TLH = The Lutheran Hymnal, 1941; WS = Worship Supplement 2000; LSB = Lutheran Service Book, 2006 Date Hymns Reading Comments March 1 TLH 287/LSB...
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LAID TO REST
“For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the...
View ArticleBREAD OF LIFE READINGS, APRIL 2024
TLH = The Lutheran Hymnal, 1941; WS = Worship Supplement 2000; LSB = Lutheran Service Book, 2006 Date Hymns Reading Comments April 1 TLH 384 / LSB 559 1 Corinthians 9 Rather than claim the rights that...
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“SAY THE WORD”
When we were young, we believed the impossible. From a man in a red suit delivering our Christmas toys to a fairy leaving a dollar under our pillows, whatever our parents told us was the “gospel...
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