I can't believe it. I am shocked. How could someone with so much in life just end it? How could someone with so many people who loved them end it? How could he? How could she? Why did they take their life and end it? Suicide is a dark reality in this world. We successful people like Robin...
Lent is that sacred time in which we meditate on our depravity and the depths of Jesus' Passion. We ponder the weight of our iniquities and the consequences that come with our transgressions. However, we also ponder and meditate on the weight of Jesus' atonement and the fruits of His Passion...
I repeat myself alot. Some could say that I do this because I don't take my time to study and therefore don't have many things to say. Others could say that I repeat myself because I am lazy and don't want to come up with new material. However, the reason I repeat myself is because alot of the...
St. Paul wrote to the Corinthians a second time saying, " So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. 17 For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond...
St. Paul wrote to St. Timothy saying, "if we are faithless, he remains faithful." (2nd Timothy 2:13). This is not a license to sin, meaning we don't just throw up our hands and say, "Well, I'm gonna be sinful so I might as well admit that I am sinful and not try to make a change." No, that...
Have you ever done something, something terrible, something depraved, something so sinful that, when you're done, you say, "That's not me." You commit that same sin again, blow up for the thousandth time, and walk down a dark road you don't want to go down. Why do we do this? Well, Jesus spoke...
Today we begin a New Calendar Year. Today we begin anew. Today it's out with the old and in with the new. We have new goals. We have new dreams. We have new ways we desire to live. We have new resolutions, those things that we are determined to accomplish this year. We will drop 45 lbs by...
Do you have doubts about your forgiveness? Do you ever wonder, "Man, if God knew what I am really thinking, feeling, and desiring, He would never forgive me?" Do you ever think, "If Jesus knew how bad I was going to be, He would have never died on the cross for me?" Well, most of us don't have...
Today is the 501st anniversary of the Lutheran Reformation. In the Treasury this morning, we are blessed by one of Luther's writings, taken from his sermons on the Gospel according to St. John, in which Luther preached saying, "Furthermore, what is a beggar's filth or stench compared with the...
St. Paul, inspired by the Holy Spirit, wrote to the church in Rome writing, "For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law." (Romans 3:28). To understand how we are justified, or declared righteous before our Heavenly Father, is necessary for everything. If we...