The Pattern of Life
It’s a good thing to start out with a Psalm a day. Then it’s fun to go and read Luther’s comments on the Psalms. You begin very quickly to sense a pattern. There is a rhythm to the songs. There is a pattern...
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by Rev. Bernie Seter | Feb 18, 2021 | 0
It’s a good thing to start out with a Psalm a day. Then it’s fun to go and read Luther’s comments on the Psalms. You begin very quickly to sense a pattern. There is a rhythm to the songs. There is a pattern...
Read Moreby Rev. Bernie Seter | Feb 16, 2021 | 0
A Study of the book of Revelation will be taking place among us and our folks seem to be excited about it. I’m going back and looking over some commentaries and found in Martin Franzmann’s...
Read Moreby Rev. Bernie Seter | Feb 9, 2021 | 1
I had a dream the other night. I was a little boy and I was standing in the midst of the big green field in Balboa Park in San Diego California. Off in the distance there’s a big pavilion and I was watching people going...
Read Moreby Rev. Bernie Seter | Feb 3, 2021 | 0
So in all the craziness going on I went to open my car door. It was cold and somehow I hyperextended the ligaments or something, in my right hand. The middle finger and the next to last finger are black and blue and hurt like...
Read Moreby Rev. Bernie Seter | Feb 2, 2021 | 1
1 Peter 4 – 8 Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. 9 Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling. 10 Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve...
Read Moreby Rev. Bernie Seter | Jan 30, 2021 | 0
Matthias Loy was a big deal in American Lutheranism. Some of his hymns and hymn translations are in LSB. He and the first president of our church body were good friends even when they split over the...
Read Moreby Rev. Bernie Seter | Jan 29, 2021 | 0
In times of trial murkiness confusion and even despair,it is one of the great triumphant privileges of a Christian to think about and hold on to the concepts of comfort and trust. Those two concepts of comfort and trust...
Read Moreby Rev. Bernie Seter | Jan 27, 2021 | 0
Dorothy Sayers is best known for her mysteries, a series of novels and short stories set between the First and Second World Wars that feature English aristocrat and amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey. She is also known for her...
Read Moreby Rev. Bernie Seter | Jan 25, 2021 | 0
Hank Aaron died recently and of course the sport crowd was in the statistics and record mode. Aaron is regarded as one of the greatest baseball players of all time. His 755 career home runs broke the long-standing MLB...
Read Moreby Rev. Bernie Seter | Jan 22, 2021 | 0
So I have been asked what I thought of the Inauguration and by some who have not liked my answers when asked political questions before. So remember you asked. Abraham Lincoln’s Law partner William Herndon...
Read Moreby Rev. Bernie Seter | Jan 21, 2021 | 0
Jonah is on the dock for Sunday. Strange man. Strange story. As T.J. Carlisle has written – By heart he has learned – with what heart he had – devotedly and meticulously the eternal words. He could recite them...
Read Moreby Rev. Bernie Seter | Jan 20, 2021 | 0
Back in the day when people wanted to start something new such as installing a new priest at the temple, or putting a new statue of Ceaser on some corner of a Roman street, there would be pomp and circumstance and speeches....
Read Moreby Rev. Bernie Seter | Jan 19, 2021 | 0
My life has been in some thing of a turmoil for the last week and I have been remiss in my blog posts. There are many wonderful things going on with Project 24 for instance, and some sad things going on as well....
Read Moreby Rev. Bernie Seter | Jan 13, 2021 | 0
All the saints of God, all believers, share the hope that according to the wisdom of all nations belongs to the very nature of man, because man lives by hope (e.g., Ecclesiastes 9:4) and cannot live without hope. The hope of the...
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