Daily Reading – January 12, 2019
My sister turned forty-three yesterday. She was born the year after Roe v. Wade. Mom and Dad were sixteen and seventeen. Had the mind of the flesh and the spirit of the world decided her fate, she wouldn’t have...
My sister turned forty-three yesterday. She was born the year after Roe v. Wade. Mom and Dad were sixteen and seventeen. Had the mind of the flesh and the spirit of the world decided her fate, she wouldn’t have...
Psalm 29 is appointed for reading on the Baptism of our Lord, so you’ll likely hear it at Sunday worship two days from now (Sunday, January 13). At the Baptism of our Lord, (Matthew 3:13-17), the voice of God...
Blessed are we. My wife was pregnant with our third child. Already the parents of two sons, we decided to find out ahead of time if we were to expect a boy or girl. It didn’t matter to us....
In 2016, I visited Washington, DC for the first time, but I didn’t go on any tours. After attending the NALC Life Conference at Trinity Lutheran Church in nearby Warrenton, VA, I had the opportunity to participate in the...
Oh! the mysteries that lie before us. Every day of this new year presents itself as an opportunity to fear, love and trust God. Yet for many, these days will be frightening because they are unknown and mysterious. What...
The Church entered into the liturgical season of Epiphany yesterday. Epiphany is the Church’s response to God’s incarnate light, the Emmanuel, who is revealed as a babe, wrapped in swaddling clothes and nestled in the arms of his mother....
Who were these “wise men” anyhow? The Greek word is magi, from which we get the words “magic” and “magician.” However, in the ancient world that had a different meaning from what we understand today. The magi were religious...