Today’s texts are again revealing to us that, even if we may be wrestling with God’s Word, God wills to bless us out of our pain. He has promised to never leave nor forsake those who trust in Him.
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Strike the Shepherd
Doesn’t Jesus say, over and over again, that He must fulfill all that has been written about Him in the Law and the Prophets?
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Temptations
How many people gather together, in their day to day life, to contemplate higher things? How many people have the opportunity to think about the kind of things that we are thinking about today? It’s not very often, is it?
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Love Imaged in Red & Black: In Blood & Ashes
For you, the faithful who have been led by the Spirit of the Living God to receive His loving gifts to you today, this melding of two celebrations can be thought of as being a day to behold God’s sacrificial love imaged in red and black: a Valentine heart and the dust of death, or simply – in Blood and ashes.
Soil Science
I’m sure you’ve heard this constantly, but it bears repeating: the Word does not change. Jesus does not change, the Word of God does not change, and the message of the Scriptures does not change. What is different in these four instances are the people to whom these Words are preached.
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OB January Meeting Notes
The meeting was opened with the “Our Father.” 12 members were in attendance. In December there were 10 members from Catalina Lutheran that laid wreathes on graves at the Arizona Veteran’s Memorial Cemetery in Marana. All 3,200 graves received a wreath. This was part of the “Wreaths Across America” Program. Women Warriors has disbanded and… Continue reading OB January Meeting Notes
St Timothy, Pastor and Confessor
Today we celebrate and give thanks for the faith, confession, preaching, and service of our father in the faith, St. Timothy. This young man was chosen by Paul to replace his fellow slave Barnabas because of the great report of those Christian men living in Lystra and Iconium. This faith was not of his own doing or his own creation but it was the gift of those who came before him and suffered the things of a Christian life to deposit to Timothy the greatest gift given to man. Specifically, this was the gift of his grandmother Lois and his mother Eunice who had accepted the revelation of Jesus Christ and become followers of the Way, teaching Timothy likewise. For more, click on the title above.
LSB 897: O Rejoice, Ye Christians Loudly
Christmastide is a time of great joy and rejoicing! The words for both “joy” and “rejoicing” in the New Testament Greek are interrelated (as they are in English), and point squarely to God’s grace in sending His Son to us to take on our flesh, die for us on the Cross, and rise again to… Continue reading LSB 897: O Rejoice, Ye Christians Loudly
St John, Apostle and Evangelist
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The baptizer points to the Baptizer
The Baptizer came baptizing in the house of misery, which is what Bethania means, along the famous Jordan and this was strange. It was strange to those who came to him, even to those who knew chapter and verse of John’s famous quotation:
“I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘make straight the way of the LORD.’” And it is strange to us.
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