Tag: Pastor Morehouse
God declares Christians innocent and blameless in Christ
Today, as usual, we have heard the tone set for the theme of the four primary readings appointed for this week. That was, as usual, delivered into our ears from the five-centuries-old Collect prayer. There we confessed that we all are poor, wretched sinners. We then declared to ourselves—not to God for He knows all things—why we continue to find ourselves in such a state. From that, we implored God to grant us His forgiveness and the Holy Spirit’s cleansing. That we did with the biblical understanding that those marvelous treasures God continues to deliver to us through our hearing His Holy Word….For more, click on the title above.
Blessings we inherit
God preserves your life through His rightly divided Word
This is the theme the Holy Spirit, working through God’s Word, has provided us for this day in the life of this congregation:
Christians are freed to forgive those who sin against them;
for as they remain in Christ Christians are forgiven before God.
You who reviewed the Small Catechism lessons chosen to accompany today’s readings on our website have reviewed faithful teachings summed up under the header: Confession: How Christians Should be Taught to Confess. They remind us about part of that which pastors who hold to the good confession of the Faith are given by God, through His Church, to do among the people of God. …For more, click on the title above.
Loving your neighbor
Got water? The Lord causes to deliver the brokenhearted
Today’s Psalm selection follows this congregation’s five evenings of emphasizing God’s work through Holy Baptism. Daily lessons taught the reality that God Himself has chosen to work His wonders through plain water and His Word. …For more, click on the title below.
Being sons of encouragement
God’s Word moves you to fear, love and trust in Him
Today marks the beginning of the long green season of the Church Year, that which has long been called, “ordinary time.” he season’s shades will change as we, in the Word, travel through the Sundays of Trinity. Colorshifts will help mark the different emphases long given to the ancient divisions of the Trinity season. Each of our greens will provide visual reminders for us of the growth and new life that God continues to give us in Christ. As we receive Him, we learn to conduct our lives in Him, according to His Word….For more, click on the title above.
The gift of God’s steadfast love
The Psalm appointed for this Pentecost begins anew the revelation that God the Holy Spirit continues to reveal the gift of God’s steadfast love to the faithful through our hearing God’s Word. That may be remembered each year as we celebrate the fifth of the Great High Feasts of the Ancient Church. The Holy Spirit, working through God’s proclaimed and heard Word, brings forth from it all the meanings of His Name. This He does as the Word continues to be planted deep in people, like you, who hear it and believe it. …For more, click on the title above.
