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Month: May 2017

Pleasant Green Meadow.

Luther had a marvelous image that we might want to take to heart.  Part of the reason for the Reformation was that the church which God created at the beginning as a place where we could hear God’s voice and respond,...

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Laborers in the Harvest.

The glorious Easter Gospel is to be preached throughout the world and applied to folks in the local congregation so they have faith in Christ.  As the Lutheran Confessions state, “that we may obtain this faith, the office of...

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Of One Substance With The Father.

We probably did not notice that the day before yesterday was the commemoration of Athanasius of Alexandria.  He was one of the those North African Bishops that held the church together in the years leading up to the fall of...

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Sleeping Through the Turmoil.

Martin Luther King wrote a speech in which he talks about the famous Washington Irving character Rip Van Winkle. He says when Rip went up the mountain where he fell asleep, he passed an establishment that had a picture of King...

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Of Phillip and James and Socialists

Today is the day that Socialists all around the world celebrate socialism.   The great system is loved and applauded usually by those who don’t have to live under it.  It is a day when people get upset because they...

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