“What are we to do when we find ourselves in such a wilderness? We should remind ourselves that the Lord God has led us there, as written about Christ in Matthew 4:1 – the Holy Spirit had brought Him there. We should endure even if deliverance is not soon forthcoming. One cannot escape such wilderness […]

In the Name of the Father and of the + Son and of the Holy Spirit So often we find ourselves saying “I want” or “I need” when the things we want or need are unnecessary. Call me a stickler for grammar, but it bothers me when I hear people at fast-food restaurants say “I […]

George Stöckhardt’s Trinity 7 sermon from “Gnade um Gnade” (Unending Grace) is fantastic. Here are some paragraphs from the sermon. “Man has to provide not just for his body but above all else for his immortal soul. And this concern is his highest, his most sacred mission in this life. For what good is it […]

A true Christian is a new person; he is a person whose heart, state of mind, intellect, and all powers the Holy Ghost has converted and transformed. This change shows itself chiefly in a new attitude toward sin. First of all, he wants to know what God’s Word calls sin. He hates and fears every […]

In the Name of the Father and of the + Son and of the Holy Spirit Today’s Collect calls God’s providence “never-failing”. God never fails to provide for His creation. Jesus says in the Sermon on the Mount that our Father in heaven makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and […]