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...
Today is the Feast of St. Stephen. There is an old Christian saying that goes, "Yesterday Christ was born in the world, so that today Stephen would be born in heaven." The Son of God became man in order that man may live eternally with God. The Son of God became man in order that He could...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx5670LWOWI The group, Imagine Dragons, wrote the song Zero for the new Wreck it Ralph movie. The song is about high functioning depression. The lyrics paint a picture of what it's like going through life feeling like your nothing, feeling empty and worthless...
Yesterday, I was blessed to be taught in our bible study by Pastor Daniels. It is rare that I get to sit and listen and be fed the Gospel during the study hour. As we were walking through Romans 7 and discussing the baptismal life, the conversation came up at the end of the study about why...
George Patton, the famous WWII General, once said, "No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair." Patton was known for advancing on the enemy, rather than sitting there and waiting to be attacked. Patton was a general of unparalleled brilliance, and unbridled determination when...
Have you ever asked yourself, "Who am I?" What I mean to say is, have you ever looked at yourself as a baptized child of God and wondered why you keep doing the same dumb things. Why do I keep loosing my cool with people, even though I have the gift of the Holy Spirit who is patient? Why do I...
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...
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...
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...