Author: Rev. Bernie Seter

  Luther was preaching on 1 Peter 3:8-15, “Tenderhearted, humbleminded” [friendly]. Here Peter has in mind mankind in general—friends and enemies, Christians and persecutors. Owing to original sin, man is...

It would be funny if it were not so sad.  Watch carefully as politicians seek to divide and then when the division takes place lecture the rest of us that we need unity and concern for others.  The so called media asks when the...

I said in another blog that one of the marks of the political season is when politicians tell the truth, or say what they really believe it is called “getting off message”.  There is all of a sudden, a lot of concern...

Luther was huge on right doctrine.  When doctrine is rightly taught and the Sacraments rightly administered a unity exists that ought to make the church a united and harmonious whole that looks after the neighbor and works in...

Mercy and Sympathy may not be the same thing but they are close.  You can be sympathetic to someone and not really do anything.  Mercy and God’s compassion are always active. Luther wrote – “This virtue of...