Author: Rev. Bernie Seter

We live in the anticipation of the life to come in Christ.  We say it Sunday after Sunday that Jesus ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of God the Father almighty and that someday He will come again to judge...

They say that this is one of Luther’s Table Prayers.  If it wasn’t I bet he wished it was. God, the Father almighty, maker of heaven and earth, you looked upon all that you created and declared it good. Grant that I,...

From Luther’s Large Catechism – Now, since all that we possess, and, moreover, whatever, in addition, is in heaven and upon the earth, is daily given, preserved, and kept for us by God, it is readily inferred and...

Luther on Thanks as found in First Article. This is what I mean and believe, that I am a creature of God; that is, that He has given and constantly preserves to me my body, soul, and life, members great and small, all my senses,...

I have to be reminded once in a while that the marvelous words that I hope to hear some day, “well done good and faithful servant,” are spoken in the midst of the story about the final judgment. It is in the parable...