This week, we begin a new year in the Christian Church calendar. The season of Advent is a season of beginnings. The word “advent” means “coming.” In this season, we hear prophecies of Christ’s first coming and prepare ourselves to celebrate his birth. We also are blessed by his coming to us to live andContinue reading “November 28 – December 4, 2021”
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November 21-27, 2021
What would it be like to meet God? We know he is almighty and holy. He loathes sin. No wonder that when God appears to his Old Testament people, their first response is typically terror. But when Jesus Christ came into our world, he hid his glory and power. He humbled himself so that sinnersContinue reading “November 21-27, 2021”
November 14-20, 2021
The eternal majesty of the King of Kings shines forth in our readings for this week. Jesus rules as King over all things. He deserves all glory, honor and praise. He is the eternal King who will come again in glory to judge. He is the King who left his majestic throne; he was soContinue reading “November 14-20, 2021”
November 7-13, 2021
Like children playing hide and seek, Jesus calls out to us through his Word, “Ready or not, here I come!” Thanks be to God that through Jesus’ saving work on the cross, we have been made ready. May his Spirit keep us in saving faith in him. Here is this week’s “Together in the Word” (click here for aContinue reading “November 7-13, 2021”
October 31 – November 6, 2021
At the end of the world, Jesus will come back in glory to judge both the living and the dead. Those who believe in him receive a verdict of “not-guilty.” Those who do not believe stand condemned to the eternal suffering of hell. Here is this week’s “Together in the Word” (click here for a more mobile-friendly version) forContinue reading “October 31 – November 6, 2021”
October 24-30, 2021
When we observe the Reformation we give thanks to God for his rescue from hell, rescue that comes by his grace alone. We thank him for the faith he gives us to trust his promise. We thank God for his errorless word, the Bible, which gives and strengthens that faith. At the same time weContinue reading “October 24-30, 2021”
October 17-23, 2021
“I am the greatest,” shouted Muhammad Ali after one of his more famous boxing victories. “I am,” he later added, “the greatest heavyweight of all time.” How would you define greatness? Is it power? Wealth? Fame? In our readings for this week, the Greatest who ever lived, he who died for us all and roseContinue reading “October 17-23, 2021”
October 10-16, 2021
It is easy to get one’s priorities mixed up, especially when it comes to the importance of material and temporal things. Material things are to be used for the glory of God. When we forget this, things become number one in a person’s life. God in Christ provides for all the necessities of life—including theContinue reading “October 10-16, 2021”
October 3-9, 2021
The Holy Ministry is filled with people who God called out of his boundless mercy. Nothing else could explain the choices for ministers that God made! He calls such sinful and weak men to fill this office. Only mercy can explain the men he chose: a despised tax collector, an exiled killer, a persecutor ofContinue reading “October 3-9, 2021”
September 26 – October 2, 2021
Sinners sin. We all sin. But we cannot excuse our sin because we act like others. Sin requires radical surgery: Jesus says: “If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off” (Mark 9: 43). The good news is that Jesus was “cut off” from his own Father through his death on the cross, inContinue reading “September 26 – October 2, 2021”
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