Christmas Day
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Christmas Eve Midnight Mass_2025
Christmas Eve – Midnight Mass
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Christmas Eve Lessons & Carols_2025
Christmas Eve – Lessons & Carols
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Christmas Eve AM_2025
Christmas Eve AM
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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.
Dr. Luther’s Small Catechism Lesson for the Week of December 21, 2025
The Sacrament of Holy Baptism – Second
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Advent 4_2025
Advent 4 – Rorate Coeli
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Advent 3_Wed_2025
Advent 3 – Wednesday
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The Nunc Dimittis–Song of Simeon
I was brought up in the Church. It’s an advantage, I believe, because things that others, non-believers or new believers, don’t have. I was indoctrinated. Thank you dad and mom, and Pastors Ryding and Rittmann and Lorenz. I was indoctrinated by solid teaching and by living a life that was focused around Church.
And when I say focused around the Church, I don’t mean the potlucks, the Vacation Bible School, the camping trips, the youth groups and all of the “stuff” that goes with Church, I mean worship and confirmation classes and living with parents that taught and reminded us—my brother and me—about the importance of prayer….For more, click on the title above.
God’s gifts; our joy in responding
If you have spent any time reading the Holy Scriptures you’ll find that not every person is presented as a “hero of the Bible.”
In fact, most of those that we may aspire to follow—men like Moses, King David or St. Paul or even back to the Father of the nation of Israel, Abraham—we find that along with their admirable traits, they all had their faults. Sometimes they are positive examples. They hold to their faith despite great challenges. Sometimes, the examples are negative, and we are cautioned not to follow these examples and their descent into sin. …For more, click on the title above.