A Note from Pastor (June 2025)

     During June, the weeks of the church year begin to be numbered in reference to “Trinity Sunday.” This helps remind us that the only true God, whom we confess in the Creeds and who saves us is “Trinitarian.”  One God, but three persons.  In the daily prayers from the Small Catechism, we learn that when we get up in the morning, “we are to make the sign of the holy cross and say, “In the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.” Beginning our day this way is a good reminder, both of our Baptism and the name of the only true God.  The daily prayers also remind us to confess the Apostles’ Creed as well.  
    Luther, in the Large Catechism, summarizes the blessing of making a good confession of faith in the Creeds, writing, “Behold, here you have the entire divine essence, will, and work depicted most exquisitely in quite short and yet rich words, wherein consists all our wisdom, which surpasses and exceeds the wisdom, mind, and reason of all men. For although the whole world with all diligence has endeavored to ascertain what God is, what He has in mind and does, yet no one has ever been able to attain to the knowledge and understanding of any of these things. From this you perceive that the Creed is a doctrine quite different from the Ten Commandments; for the latter teaches indeed what we ought to do, but the former tells what God does for us and gives to us. Moreover, apart from this, the Ten Commandments are written in the hearts of all men; the Creed, however, no human wisdom can comprehend, but it must be taught by the Holy Ghost alone.  Let this suffice concerning the Creed to lay a foundation for the simple, that they may not be burdened, so that, if they understand the substance of it, they themselves may afterwards strive to acquire more, and to refer to these parts whatever they learn in the Scriptures and may ever grow and increase in richer understanding” (LC, Part II, Article III, 67-69).  May the Holy Spirit work faith in us to continue to make the good confession taught in the Creeds.