We thank God for the loyalty and ministry of St. Michael

St. Michael’s Victory over the Devil (Detail) by Sir Jacob Epstein St Michael's Cathedral, Coventry, Warwickshire, England

We don’t pray to the angels. We don’t even pray for them.
Rather, we pray with them to the One who has created us, redeemed us, and sanctified us.
We pray to Him who sent St. Michael into battle, and who also sends us.

Prof Insights: Faculty-Led Workshop – Professor Bode in Tucson, AZ

What Does It Mean to be Lutheran in America?: Discord in the LCMS in the 1960s and 1970s This workshop is an examination and analysis of the controversy within The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS) in the 1960s and 1970s with attention to doctrinal issues and church-political developments in the Synod. The discussion will chart the… Continue reading Prof Insights: Faculty-Led Workshop – Professor Bode in Tucson, AZ

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Made Worthy

Illustrator of Petrus Comestor's 'Bible Historiale', France, Healing of the Man with Dropsy, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 1372
Sermon for the 17th Wednesday after Trinity

And so, our dilemma is that we are unworthy——-and yet are bidden – even ordered – to be
here at the “wedding feast,” at the banquet over which One who is greater than Solomon
presides.

Wednesday Trinity 12

Jesus Christ Healing the Man Who Was Deaf and Dumb, Folio 86 of the Codex Palatinus Vindobonensis 485 (4th or 5th century), Austrian National Library, Vienna.
Sermon for Wednesday Trinity 12

God’s Beautiful Kingdom Comes Through the Gospel

The Sword by Paul Kaleb DB

As we repeatedly hear from this pulpit, the proclamation of peace between God and man that Jesus died to bring continues to move sinners like you and me to repentance. The peace that Jesus won on the Cross continues to grant Divine forgiveness to us.

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Rejoice: The Lord Remains Faithful to His Promises

The New Jerusalem from the Folio 55r of the Bamberg Apocalypse

We need to hear that He, through His Word of forgiveness, continues to set our sins apart from us, even as far as the East is from the West. Our New Natures desire to hear God say, through the means He Himself chose: “I will remember [your] sins no more!”

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