Month: December 2019

  I usually have my brain explode by this time in the lead up to Christmas. Usually by now some liberal theologian has compared the plight of refugees to Mary and Joseph, claimed that they were homeless, and somehow tried...

  December 20 is the day we commemorate Luther’s wife Katie.  As we march down the road to Christmas there are these little side tracks we can take and they can be interesting.  Thursday was the commemoration of Adam...

  Advent is the difficult season for me as a preacher and a hearer because it is that now and not yet stuff that goes on.  We know we are getting ready for Christmas so let’s just be done with it already.  We know the...

As we approach the Christmas season the old saw comes out that “Jesus is the reason for the season”.  Christians get that but have to be reminded once and a while.  Martin Luther, a little over a year before he died,...

Luther talked about doing what lies at hand.  What he meant by that is that we, in our vocations, rely upon God to accomplish anything and trust in God to receive anything, while working as hard as we can at everything according...