Today/Tonight we begin a journey, a five-week trip that will take us along a street now called Via Dolorosa, Latin for “Sorrowful Way.” It is also called by another Latin name, “Via Crucis” which translates to “Way of (the) Cross.”
Pastor Morehouse, Vicar Decker, and I will be your guides as we journey through the crowds that lined that street almost 2,000 years ago. We will discover the identity of some of those who were there. For more, click on the title above.
Category: Worship
God’s steadfast love endures forever
Today’s readings serve, as you heard, to remind the Church of God’s eternally enduring love for people who are named with His Name. The texts from the Psalm, Jeremiah, the Letter to the Ephesians, and St. Luke have again been declared to us whom He gathers so regularly around His Word and Sacraments. Each year, on this particular Sunday, those readings reveal God’s unconditional love for sinners like you and me. They call us to remember that Jesus shed His blood into death to cover over sin, all sin. For more, click on the title above.
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Lent 3 (Oculi)
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Bearing the cross, hearing Jesus, sitting in glory
The Lord has graciously brought us to another Wednesday in this Lenten season. As He does so, we are maintaining the “regular” orders of Services used here for Wednesdays. That means that each Lent Wednesday morning we continue to receive God’s gifts through the 20th century order called Divine Service, Setting 4. Each Lent Wednesday evening we continue to receive God’s gift of the Word through the ancient order of Vespers. …For more, click on the title above.
Rejoice in God
One of the key teachings of the Confessional Lutheran Church is that mankind is justified—declared right with God—by faith, not by the works carried out with human hands. This has been the case since Luther nailed the Ninety-Five Thesis to the door of his church. While there are multiple readings from Holy Scripture that explain the truth of how mankind is justified, our epistle reading for today clearly states that “we have been justified by faith.” For more, click on the title above.
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Lent 2 (Reminiscere)
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Lent 1 Wednesday – Station 1 & Station 2
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Called to cling to the truth Who is God’s mercy
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Lent 1 (Invocabit)
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We are all beggars living under God’s Grace
Our homily for this Ash Wednesday is based upon a Psalm that is familiar to us
who have been receiving God’s gifts through the ancient public services (liturgies) of
the Church. It reveals that we are all beggars living under God’s grace. We pray the
Holy Spirit will guide our thoughts today as we contemplate the following translated
verse:
Mercy me, O Elohim, as to Your steadfast love, as to Your abundant mercy
blot out my transgressions; cause to thoroughly wash me from my iniquity, and
from my sin cleanse me….For more, click on the title above.