Pastor Scot Kinnaman at Blog My Soul explains the meaning of the season of Lent. Here is what he wrote:THE TIME OF EASTEREaster celebrates the chief event in the life of Christ. It was the earliest and major celebration among early Christians. Given that Easter is both a movable date and also a prin...

From "THE TRUE BELIEVER" by Aidan Kavanagh, O.S.B. (full article can be found in Type list in right sidebar under  "Excerpts/Current Books and Articles I am Reading" "Yet even this is not enough, nor is it where the scandal lies. For to know him baptismally is to know ...

Today celebrates the conversion of Saul of Tarsus, who became known as Paul, through the revelation of the risen Christ to him on the road to Damascus. The zealous Pharisee, Saul was traveling to arrest followers of Jesus. Instead of capturing Christians, Paul found Himself made captive by his Savio...

Now that the Christmas season has come and gone, we turn our focus to the next season in our church year, which is the season of Epiphany. Epiphany means a revealing or an opening (as in the opening of one’s eyes). In the season of Epiphany, the Biblical texts in our LCMS lectionary that we examin...

Today January 6 — is the Day of Epiphany — when the Church celebrates the coming of the Wise Men (or Magi) to worship the baby Jesus (Matthew 2:1-12) In many traditions this has become a day for celebrating the faith of the wise men — who were Gentiles — and shows that God ha...

Here are some thoughts by the great Lutheran theologian Johann Gerhard on the Festival of the Epiphany about what God reveals to us by means of the Wise Men's visit to the infant Lord and Savior, Jesus. Following Gerhard's thoughts, are the words to Philip Nicolai's great hymn How Lovely......

  In the bleak midwinter,frosty wind made moan,Earth stood hard as iron,water like a stone;Snow had fallen, snow on snow,snow on snow,In the bleak midwinter, long ago. photo:my own...

What’s in a name? Well, actually….quite a lot. Jesus, which means, “The Lord saves� is the name given to Joseph by the angel, with the command that this is to be the name of the one who was born of the Virgin Mary. Pastor Walter Snyder offers this post for......

Time has an article on how most Christians no longer (if they ever did) go to church on Christmas Day.  Every pastor knows it’s true.  And I doubt there’s anything to be done about it, except call people to repent of their family idolatry and return to the true worship in the presence ...

Merry Christmas! All My Heart This Night Rejoicesby Pastor Paul Gerhardt1. All my heart this night rejoicesAs I hear Far and nearSweetest angel voices."Christ is born," their choirs are singingTill the air EverywhereNow with joy is ringing.2. Forth today the Conqueror goeth,Who the foe, Sin and woe,...