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The theme for this day follows upon this past week’s teaching concerning how God continues to meet His people on this hill. A goodly number of us have heard again from readings that also resound throughout the Church Year, of all that God has done, is doing, and will do for His faithful people. From hearing of God’s chosen people eating and drinking in His Presence in the Old Testament into having the Promise of the blessedness of the coming New Heavens and Earth, we learned that, as God’s children, we who have died and risen to new life in Christ are heirs of God, and most certainly, co-heirs with Christ….For more, click on the title above.

The visible reality of inherited blessings given to this assembly of the faithful
through the death of Christ Jesus, frees us to remember that this is also another day in the life of this congregation in which we are free to rejoice. Whenever we consider all
the members whom God has joined into one Body on this hill beginning with a small mission in 1981, we can be very grateful to God. Not one of this congregation’s founding members could have imagined all the biblical and confessional wisdom, life
experiences, skills, talents, worldly wisdom, and so much more that have been, and are, in the people whom God has gathered here over the years. The Scripture for the day reminds us: to this all of you were called, that blessing you might inherit….For more, click on the title above.

From the Table of Duties, today’s theme verse is part of a biblical quote that is addressed to young persons. In the Small Catechism, the text about self-humility is preceded by a biblical admonishment. t was pointed for young men to teach them to be voluntarily submissive to the presbyters, that is, pastors, men who are older than they.
That can be a tough teaching to stomach for budding theologians. They are, after all, people who have gained some biblical knowledge. Even so, such young men have not yet gained wisdom through continual struggling with worldly evils. Lack of wisdom and discernment can tempt them to try to correct their elders. It also leads them to confuse the Kingdoms of the Right and of the Left….For more, click on the title above.

How are you doing with staying daily heavenly minded while doing earthly good? This can be tough, as you are continually bombarded by reports of worldly realities that seem to communicate, “The sky is falling!”
How are you handling the satanic and fallen worldly messages that continue to rail against the clear, beautiful, and graceful messages of Scripture that come to the hearers of God’s Word from the right division of Law and Gospel?
Those among us who truly and honestly answered those questions likely confessed that you are not doing well, to say the least….For more, click on the title above.