A few days ago I started reading the bible for a 90 day plan. This has me reading the entire Bible every 90 days, about four times in a year. After a few days, a few things have occurred to me. First, it does not take that much time to read fourteen chapters of the Bible every day. You...
Have you ever asked that question, "Why God?" Why God, did you give me or my loved one cancer? Why God, did you get me fired from my job, or empty my retirement by destroying the economy? Why God, did you send that hurricane that destroyed so many people's lives? Why God, did you do this or...
The Treasury writing today is from C.F.W. Walther. He wrote, "A person may pretend to be a Christian while in reality he is not. As long as he is in this condition, he is quite content with his knowledge of the mere outlines of the Christian doctrines...However, the moment a person becomes a...
This past Sunday in Bible Study it was asked, "Because the devil and demons are real, that means that real evil exists in this world. How do we deal with evil in this world?" The first thing was that we pray, we pray the Lord's Prayer, the morning and evening prayers, the Psalms, Hymns, and we...
Around this time last year I wrote on something called emotional fatigue. Emotional fatigue is a result of constant stress, continual caring for others, and anxiety over things that are happening and could happen. What happens is that our emotions, meaning our ability to care for others and have...
This past week we witnessed again the consequence of the fall into sin. We watched the news and saw that a young man entered into his school inn Santa Fe, Texas, and killed 10 fellow classmates and teachers. Christians around the nation and the globe immediately sent out messages that they were...
This morning, Pastor Daniels and I were speaking about crosses that many people bear. What comes to mind immediately is the story of St. Paul Gergardt. He was a pastor in Germany in the early 17th century. He had to bury his own wife, many of his children, a majority of his congregation, and was...
This morning, Pastor Daniels and I were speaking about crosses that many people bear. What comes to mind immediately is the story of St. Paul Gergardt. He was a pastor in Germany in the early 17th century. He had to bury his own wife, many of his children, a majority of his congregation, and was...
The Church is in the business of forgiving sinners, and my friends, business is a boomin. Every day the devil, the world, the Old Adam, and death awake in man his desires to sin. We desire to lust, envy what our neighbor has been given, and we grow in anxiety and depression. In short, there is...
St. Paul wrote to the churches in Galatia saying, "For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” (Galatians 5:14). We hear these words as a burden, as something we have to do. St. Paul doesn't say the Gospel is fulfilled...