At the end of this month we will celebrate the Last Sunday of the church year and acknowledge the quickly approaching return of Christ, when we sing, “The day is surely drawing near, when Jesus, God’s anointed, in all His power shall appear as judge whom God appointed. Then fright shall banish idle mirth, and flames on flames shall ravage earth as Scripture long has warned us.” These are sobe...

     This month we will celebrate the anniversary of the Lutheran Reformation. Unfortunately, for the past 500 years, both Roman Catholics and Protestants have often accused us of worshipping a man. The Scriptures clearly states that we are to follow no one but God. To call ourselves “Lutheran,” shows that we believe that the teaching of the Lutheran church best fulfills the admonition to preach C...

“I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus, that in every way you were enriched in him in all speech and all knowledge— even as the testimony about Christ was confirmed among you— so that you are not lacking in any gift, as you wait for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ, who will sustain you to the end, guiltless in the day of our Lo...

    King David wrote in Psalm 96, “Oh sing to the LORD a new song; sing to the LORD, all the earth! Sing to the LORD, bless his name; tell of his salvation from day to day. Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples!” (Psalm 96:1)      The Aposlte Paul encouraged the people of Colossae with these words, “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and a...

        According to the apostle, St. Peter, from his First Epistle, chapter 3,“For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit, in which he went and proclaimed to the spirits in prison, because they formerly did not obey, when God's patience waited in the days of Noah, while the ...