Today, we celebrate the “Second Sunday after Christmas.” Yes, the official Christmas season and its related celebrations have passed for another year. Nonetheless, our LORD’s word never “perishes, spoils and fades” (1 Peter 1:3-4). Rather, the word of the Lord endures forever! In today’s Old Testament lesson, we hear our LORD pledge such an enduring […]
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Jesus Is Zealous For His Father’s House – December 26, 2021
Despite the official celebration of Christmas freshly in the rearview mirror, we still relish in its ongoing blessings. Our Christchild came to redeem all people by giving Himself as a ransom for sin. Like a red ribbon surrounding a beautifully decorated Christmas gift, so the red line of prophecy runs throughout Scripture until the gospels unfold the gift of […]
One Giant Leap For Mankind – December 19, 2021
Every Sunday, we speak about Jesus’ passive obedience, that is, that He came here to suffer and die on the cross to pay for sin. But we must also present Scripture’s two-fold nature of Jesus’ saving work. Jesus also had to obey the demands of God’s holy law perfectly as our substitute (Matthew 5:17-18). We call […]
Rejoice In The Lord Always – December 12, 2021
Step by step the Advent season leads us to the coming Savior. The One who came according to God’s promise will surely come again on Judgment Day to “judge the living and the dead” (1st Sunday of Advent). How we as Christians look forward to that “final redemption,” through which God will glorify us body and soul […]
Heed The Voice Of God’s Advent Preacher – December 5, 2021
As informed last Sunday, the word Advent means, “He comes.” The Advent Season focuses on the two comings of our Savior: the Savior’s first coming to earth in His Bethlehem birth; the second when He returns on Judgment Day. With both of our Savior’s advents in mind, we ask with the hymn writer, “O Lord, how shall […]
The LORD Will Fulfill His Promise
Today we begin a new church year as we enter the “Festival Half of the Church Year” with the season of Advent. The word Advent comes from the Latin verb advenio, meaning “to come to.” The word “Advent” in Latin means, “He comes.” Certainly, the end of the church year reminded us that Jesus would again […]
In The End…The LORD Will Deliver – November 14, 2021
The church year officially comes to a close on Sunday, November 21. So, these last Sundays have a theme focusing on the end times before Christ returns on Judgment Day. These Sundays of the End Times have specific themes to do so. For instance, last Sunday was known as “Last Judgment.” This particular Sunday is […]
Honor The Son As The Father – November 7, 2021
The Broadway musical writer, George Gershwin, once commented, “The things that you’re liable to read in the Bible: it ain’t necessarily so.” What can we learn from such an opinion? To this day people think in their sinfulness that the solution to sin and God is to deny them or at least minimize their significance. Regardless of […]
The Lord Proclaims His Eternal Gospel – October 31, 2021
History records how the great reformer, Martin Luther, nailed his 95 Theses on the Castle Church door in Wittenberg, Germany, on October 31, 1517. To this day, confessional Lutherans, faithful to the truth of God’s word and remembering this historical event, observe this day as Reformation Sunday. By posting these Theses, Luther challenged theologians from […]
Jesus Serves By Bringing Life – October 24, 2021
While the passion of our Savior seems unfair to believers and hurts our hearts, it underscores the result of sin’s curse and the need to satisfy God’s holy justice. There is no way any human could atone for sin, because we truly “like sheep have gone astray” (Isaiah 53:6). But our loving, heavenly Father sent […]