Even though this Sunday doesn’t occur this year, I’ll post it to make sure it’s on the site. THE TWENTY-FIFTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY The last few Sundays have brought exhortation and promises. Today we enter on the final group of Sundays, dealing with the Last Things as the completion of the believer’s life and the […]

In the Name of the Father and of the + Son and of the Holy Spirit Human beings crave certainty. This past Tuesday some of us stayed up well past our bedtime to see who would be elected to national, state, and local offices. Going to bed without knowing who our new leaders are might […]

So, what is the bottom line? Listen to what Christ says: See, I have told you beforehand. When they say to you, Lo, here is Christ, do not believe it. That’s what you should do. Pay no attention, don’t believe the false christs and the false prophets, even if they prophesy in the name of […]

Paul Lindemann, “The Sermon and the Propers” [The preacher] is speaking to people who have…put their trust in God, who put no trust in their own merits, who have prayed that the Lord would not let them be put to shame but deal with them according to His mercy. When the world has become a […]

In today’s Gospel, Our Lord wishes to say this: “I warn you not to fall from the pure faith, for you know not it what hour I will come. When anyone neglects his looking for me, then I will come as suddenly as the lightning flashes from heaven. When anyone clings not to him by […]