The following theme flowed forth from today’s readings:
Lex semper accusat…lex non potest eos accusare aut damnare..
Those two Latin phrases ought to be interpreted into the language common to us, English. That is because we desire that we might be found faithful to the teaching of the Scriptures. The first phrase, lex semper accusat… may be correctly interpreted to mean: “The Law always accuses….” The second phrase, lex non potest eos accusare aut damnare is interpreted to reveal that “the Law cannot accuse or condemn them (that is, those who remain in the Jesus of the Scriptures).” Another way to think of that is to hear, reflect, and own this old biblically formed adage: The Law convicts, condemns, and kills… the Gospel acquits, atones, and enlivens. …For more, clickl on the title above.
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God’s Word provides consistency and stability
Please hear the following theme text that has been selected for this first day of 2026. As you do so, remember as it is the eighth day of Christmas, it is also the day the Church has continued to celebrate Jesus’ shedding first blood in the war He won against sin, death, and the devil. We recall our response that prepared us to hear of the Circumcision of our Lord, as we declared:
What shall I render to the LORD for all his benefits to me?
I will lift up the cup of salvation and call on the name of the LORD… . For more, click on the title above.
Proclaiming God’s faithfulness through the generations
Merry Christmas! This day, God has called us again to hear His Word to His Church on another fourth day of Christmas. This is also a day wherein the Church has commemorated the shedding of innocent blood on account of the Good News concerning Jesus the Christ.
Through all of that, God’s Word for today presents to you God’s will. He reveals that in the divine hope that it would move your New Adam’s response to God’s mercy. Hear now that which you are free in Christ to do—despite the multitudes of tragedies that surround you in this fallen world. For more, click on the title above.
King of kings and eternal priest of the living God
Voluntary submission and sacrificial love
Today, God has gathered us to hear His Word concerning repentance, forgiveness, grace, and mercy. Those attributes, which the Word calls for as part of a continual practice in a healthy marriage between one man and one woman, are accompanied by two specific teachings in today’s texts. The first is one that has raised concerns in some 20th and 21st century American women. The second is one that some Christian men of the same era have failed to heed. We’ll hear more about voluntary submission and sacrificial love in a few minutes. …For more, click on the title above.
The song of Zechariah
Through His Services to us, the Lord has brought us to the second of the Church’s three Advent Wednesdays this year. They have served, and are serving, to proclaim to us Faith’s response to God’s beautiful gifts. Last week, we heard as the Magnificat was expounded that it was, and is, a reflection of this biblical principle as it applies to God’s Word and His people’s right responses: Gift, Recognition, [and] Response. The past two Sundays, we’ve heard the texts that led, and flowed from, that theme as it was, and is, wrapped about by the ancient themes of those Sundays, “Hope,” and “Peace.” …For more, click on the title above.
Freed in Christ to call upon God in the day of trouble
Today, God has called us into His Service to once again receive His gifts. Through them, He would have us hear, by our faithfully receiving His proclaimed Word, a theme that helps us in our watching and waiting for the Last Day. That is, that we, as members of the Body of Christ, are freed in Him to call upon God in the Day of Trouble. …For more, click on the title above.
The King of Glory arrives
This day, as in years past, the New Church Year has begun with our heralding the King of Glory… He is the One Whom we believe, teach, and confess is Jesus. He is the Lord of the Heavenly Hosts. He alone was, and is, the One Who once entered ancient Jerusalem humble and sitting upon a donkey, and upon the colt of a donkey.
So, as New Church Years have begun for centuries, this week has started by our heralding Jesus as the fulfillment of the Lord’s Promise to King David. He, we are being, and will be, led to understand over the course of almost four weeks this year, is the eternal Son of David Who would, and does, sit on God’s eternal Throne of Glory. …For more, click on the title above.
God Cut the Beautiful Everlasting Covenant.
“That prayer helps keep this November Second’s Commemoration in it is
biblical place. Such prayers help prevent rightly confession congregations from
assenting to, or cooperating in, many types of false worship and practices that accompany All Souls Day. You likely know that many Tucson area residents celebrate the Day of the Dead, or Día de los Muertos on 1 and 2 November each year. In the face of that, we will continue to celebrate the biblical reality that people who have been baptized into the death and resurrection of Jesus, even though they may die, live in Him forever. Baptized and continually believing persons who have not yet fallen asleep in the Lord find their greatest communion with the blessed ones who have died in Christ whenever they
come to Christ’s Altar Tables in rightly confessing and worshipping congregations. It is there where those who are baptized, those who rightly discern Christ’s Body and Blood in, with, and under earthly elements of bread and wine, recline in His Presence. Through those means, the faithful are granted forgiveness and strengthening to eternal life by Jesus Himself. Further, we recall that where Jesus is, there are the heavenly hosts.”
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God cut the beautiful everlasting covenant
There is a conjunction of readings that have occurred this day. In this place, we follow the helpful and ancient tradition of keeping the appointed Sunday readings whenever a minor feast, festival, or commemoration appears on a Sunday. That helps all of us hold fast to the rhythm of this part of Trinity-tide, whose Sunday texts reinforce us for Christian endurance in the Faith. For more, click on the title above.