Advent 1 – Wednesday
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The magnificat
Welcome to the first midweek service of this Advent season. Our theme for this year’s sermon series is “The Songs of the Saints,” and as I’m sure you may have guessed, the sermon text for this week is the Magnificat. Out of context, it makes sense to study the Song of Mary during Advent considering how the song was sung during Mary’s pregnancy. It is also found in the first chapter of Luke, where the Gospel is building up to our Savior’s birth. However, today we will be examining the canticle from a slightly different angle. …For more, click on the title above.
The King of Glory arrives
This day, as in years past, the New Church Year has begun with our heralding the King of Glory… He is the One Whom we believe, teach, and confess is Jesus. He is the Lord of the Heavenly Hosts. He alone was, and is, the One Who once entered ancient Jerusalem humble and sitting upon a donkey, and upon the colt of a donkey.
So, as New Church Years have begun for centuries, this week has started by our heralding Jesus as the fulfillment of the Lord’s Promise to King David. He, we are being, and will be, led to understand over the course of almost four weeks this year, is the eternal Son of David Who would, and does, sit on God’s eternal Throne of Glory. …For more, click on the title above.
Dr. Luther’s Small Catechism Lesson for the Week of November 30, 2025
The Lord’s Prayer – The Second Petition
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Advent 1 – Ad Te Lavavi
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Giving Him thanks
The Holiday of Thanksgiving was made on October third, 1863, by Abraham Lincoln. President Lincoln issued the Thanksgiving Day proclamation in hopes that it would help to bring together the divided people.
In the proclamation, President Lincoln declared that the last Thursday of November would be treated as a National Day of Thanksgiving. The holiday was explained as being in remembrance of a peaceful exchange between the native American tribe of Wampanoag and the settlers of Plymouth who they made a strategic alliance with in hopes of using them for their own gain. This peace would be short-lived, and conflict would lead to the downfall of the Wampanoag. …For more, click on the title above.
New heavens and new earth–What does this mean?
Our initial question for this morning is: What does it mean to create a new heaven and a new earth? Is the prophet speaking about the Kingdom of Grace in which we Christians now live, or, is this new heaven and earth the one Promised at the End of the Age?…For more, click on the title above.
Life to eternity
Forty years ago, on this date, November 22,1985, at about this same hour, I heard the sound of a phone ringing. I wasn’t a pastor at that time in my life. I was a salesman, making a presentation in a house in Silver City, New Mexico. This was before cell phones, so it wasn’t my phone, it was that of the homeowner. I was a little mad because it had interrupted the flow of my sales pitch….For more, click on the title above.
Dr. Luther’s Small Catechism Lesson for the Week of November 23, 2025
The Creed – The Third Article: Sanctification
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Trinity 27 – Last Sunday of the Church Year
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