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Today, our Old Testament reading calls for any person who would be found faithful before God to hold onto God’s Word. It teaches that the faithful continue being called to hold onto God’s instruction; that He continues to reveal through rightly divided His Word.
It is through the proclaimed Word of God that the Holy Spirit wills to give salvation. At the end of a faithful person’s mortal life in the Faith, the Spirit, through the Word of God, will lead him or her into blessed eternal life. That is fitting for us to hear as Laurencetide’s theme of sanctification draws to a close for another year. …For more, click on the title above.

For those numbered among the faithful in this place, especially you who attended both this past Wednesday’s Divine Service and one of the last Sunday’s Divine Services, two themes were repeated in the public proclamation of God’s Word. Wednesday’s sermon was guided by these words: the letters of the Law kill, and the Gospel is the means through which the Spirit sustains life. As last Sunday’s sermon was developed it brought forth this theme: God listens to our pleas. Today, we hear of the true love of God. In it we are led to steadfastness in His Word. Through God’s Word, the Holy Spirit leads Christians into acting in true love for the benefit of our neighbors….For more, click on the title above.

On this Sunday of each Church Year, for centuries in the confessing Church, God’s people have heard of beautiful traditions. We are reminded by the readings of the day that those things which we have received from the ancient fathers of the Faith are helpful. That is, whenever they are received in true faith. That remains certain whether or not those things that have been faithfully handed on are the central focus of a given Sunday sermon.
Today, we have heard how Cain and Abel, the children of Adam and Eve, dealt with at least one of the traditions they had received from their father. Those would have been handed onto them after Adam’s fall into sin. We have again heard of the tradition of giving allegiance offerings to God. These the faithful participate in with thanksgiving for all His benefits to His highest creatures. …For more, click on the title above.

This is a day given to us in the Church Militant to remember that every time God gathers us around His Word and Sacraments we are standing in the Council of the Lord. God continues to call us to be physically present in His services to us. That call is for us who continue to be, by virtue of Holy Baptism, named His chosen people. Christians know, believe, and act on the divine reality that we need to be present in the Lord’s Services. …For more, click on the title above.