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Dressed for action and lamps burning

LSB Icon used with permission

Seeing how this is the last day of the calendar year, it seems only fitting that the sermon is on the true and final Last Day.
Through the earthly authors of the Bible, God has communicated to mankind some details about the events that will take place leading up to and during the Final Judgement. Typically, this topic would lead the faithful to dissect the text of the Revelation or as it is titled in the Greek text, The Apocalypse of John, to find information and answers to their questions.
That is not a bad place to start your study. In fact, it would be the correct choice in many cases, considering how Revelation largely focuses on this subject. However, the Final Day is spoken of elsewhere in Scripture, including but not limited to our Gospel and sermon text for today from the Gospel of Luke the Evangelist. …For more, click on the title above.

Proclaiming God’s faithfulness through the generations

Simeon and Anna by Teresa Moon

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.

The Word

Nativity scene painted on pipal leaf (found in Nepal and India)

Christ is born!!! The Savior prophesied about in ages past has arrived, born of the virgin in Bethlehem. But now what? What did Jesus do?
There are multiple excerpts from Scripture that give an outline of this what Jesus did. One of the best known examples of this would be John 3:16 where we are told why Jesus came, what He did, and the result. It is nice, quick, and to the point. …For more, click on the title above.

Who is this babe born in a manger

Untitled and Unattributed Nativity

There hasn’t been, and won’t be, a word heard tonight, in song or text or sermon, that these walls haven’t heard hundreds of times before. No matter how old we are, most of us have sat here or someplace quite like this, on Christmas Eve, and heard these words, these songs, these texts before. …For more, click on the title above.