Sermons from March 2017

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Children of the Light

Dear children of the Light, Jesus Christ,      Are you waiting for the light–for the sun to shine upon us again–without clouds and fog?  The recent more “dismal” weather makes me shift to the spiritual realm. How many live constantly in a spiritual fog zone!      We heard the Gospel reading this past […]

Order in the Church March 21, 2017

Dear people, redeemed by the blood of Christ,      What does a church do to make everyone happy?  Trying to do that is a slippery slope.  Please do not misunderstand me.  While we would all agree that we want people to be happy, yet the Church is not here to make people happy–that is, […]

LIFE by the WORD

Dear redeemed in Christ, Confessional Lutheran pastors often sound like a broken record (or a defective CD): they keep repeating themselves!  But in a good and necessary way!  Preaching and teaching the Word of God means that the “golden gems” of our Christian doctrine (our objective faith) will be spoken, written, confessed, prayed, sung, and […]