In the Name of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost. Amen. The older I get, the more I look forward to the first day of Lent as an old friend coming round again for a helpful visit. For decades I have abstained from alcohol and other dietary items for the […]
Sermon Topic: Death
A Fight and a Death
Grace be unto you and peace, from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. The Nine Lessons and Carols for Christmas is understandably one of the most beloved services of the year. The glorious themes of Christ’s Birth are treated in the texts, winged by the haunting phrases of the music. However, […]
A Grandchild Speaks the Truth
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the living God who is, and who was, and who is to come. Advent means coming, and for the Church it means the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ as our Savior and our Judge. God our Father created us […]
Honesty Before God
It was in a prayer class that the question appeared. We had talked about the various kinds of prayer (asking for yourself and for others, giving thanks, confessing sin, praising God, and so forth), about a few simple strategies for making prayer a part of regular life (short prayers at rising and sleeping, at mealtime, […]
