Our text for this morning from the Gospel of St. Luke is commonly called the Parable of the Sower. This is actually a parable about four different kinds of dirt, or soil. The emphasis is not on the sower at all—although we will have a thing or two to say about him—but the focus is on the different kinds of soil into which the sower’s seed falls. To put it another way, this is not a parable about the preacher, it’s about the hearers….For more, click on the title above.
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God’s Word: Our shield
At every ordination and installation of a pastor within the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod you will hear the following: “Do you believe and confess the canonical books of the Old and New Testaments to be the inspired Word of God and the only infallible rule of faith and practice?” And you will hear them answer in the affirmative….For more, click on the title above.
Why do we tempt the Lord despite His provisions?
Make a joyful noise to the Rock of our salvation
For many of this congregation’s members and friends, the words of a major portion of today’s Psalm, the 95th, may sound more familiar than those of any other Psalm. The words of today’s Psalm have continued being heard ringing out from this holy hill on most Monday mornings since last year. They echo among us during Holy Week, at each Resurrection Dawn service, and on this nation’s National Day of Thanksgiving. Today’s Psalm may also be chanted on a few Wednesday mornings when a pastor is not present among us to celebrate the Lord’s Supper. …For more, click on the title above.
No one but Jesus
Promises fulfilled in Jesus
Listen to Him
Today marks the last Sunday in the Epiphany season this year. It starts to guide our thoughts and studies to the season of Lent. That will conclude with the events in the city of Jerusalem during the Passover feast and the Passion of Christ. The reading our church fathers selected to fill this role is the Transfiguration of our Lord as recorded in the Gospel of the Apostle Matthew. …For more, click on the title above.
God’s gift of the crown of righteousness
This morning God has called and gathered us together into His House that He established decades ago in Catalina. He did so that, even today with the real earthly loss we’ve suffered we might hear God’s Word and respond to it in thanks. God planted this congregation to be a light on this hill in Catalina in the Divine Hope that all that takes place here would reflect and shine forth the Light of Christ to us, and through us, to our neighbors near and far. For more, click on the title above.
The Word made manifest
Today is January 18. This congregation and most of the Christian world celebrated the Epiphany of our Lord officially on January 6. But the Epiphany is not just a one-day event; it has a season of its own.
Sunday of last week we remembered the Baptism of Jesus. That’s the first bookend of the Epiphany season. Next Sunday, the 25th, we will celebrate the Transfiguration of our Lord, which is the closing bookend of the Epiphany season.
What does that mean? For more, click on the title above.