Today is the last Sunday of the Church year. Next Sunday we will begin the Advent season, which is a season of anticipation of Christ’s coming. In the Old Testament, Advent looked to the coming of God in the flesh to deal with sin. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, was born of the Virgin Mary, died, rose, and then …
Monthly Archives: November 2017
Happy Thanksgiving! For the Thanksgiving holiday, I want to focus on Deuteronomy 8:1-10. The Old Testament book of Deuteronomy takes place right before the people of Israel are to enter into the land of Canaan. They had previously been held captive in Egypt, without a land of their own, living as strangers in a strange land. But, the Lord redeemed …
I’m going to focus on today’s reading from Matthew 25:14-30 and the topic of vocation, but I’ll get there in a round-about way. First, though, I want to talk about the Lutheran Catechism, and I promise that it’ll lead us back to the Gospel. Now, the Bible is our sole source of theology, since it is God’s Word. Then, as …
St. Paul writes to the the congregation in Thessalonica (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18) that he does not want them to be uninformed. He speaks of the hope that we have in Jesus Christ; because Christ died and rose again, we too will rise from death since we are his people. Paul calls death “sleep,” and Christ will rouse us from this …
Today we celebrate All Saints’ Day when we remember all those who have gone before us in the faith. Although today we call special attention to them, really though, we remember them each Sunday, because our prayers rise up and join with theirs before the Lord and because we follow in the footsteps of the Church since Christ’s ascension. We …