June 2023

The Presentation of the Augsburg Confession – Sunday 25 June A✠D 2023 ✠ Psalmody: Psalm 119:46;34:1–2, 11, 22;48:1a, 12–14a;Luke 12:32 ✠ Lection: Nehemiah 8:1–10;1 Timothy 6:11–16;St. Matthew 10:26b–33 In the Name of the Father and of the ✠ Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Many Christians celebrate, remember, and give thanks for the event that took place on October 31, 1517 when Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg. They consider it the genesis of what came to be whatever doctrinal belief system to which they belong. Arminians, Calvinists, Baptists, Presbyterians: they all have no qualm with sayingRead More →

The Second Sunday after Trinity – Sunday 18 June A✠D 2023 ✠ Psalmody: Psalm 18:18b-19;18:1-2a, 27, 30a;120:1-2;7:11 ✠ Lection: Proverbs 9:1-10;1 John 3:13-18;St. Luke 14:16-24 In the Name of the Father and of the ✠ Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. The sense of urgency is a feeling that comes about in all people, even if it’s something small and simple as hurrying to straighten out the living room right before guests arrive, unloading the final bags of groceries as rain clouds loom and thunder rolls, or finally pulling the weeds when we notice that they now tower higher than our vegetable plants or flowers. ButRead More →

Holy Trinity – Sunday 4 June A✠D 2023 ✠ Psalmody: Psalm 8:1-2a, 3-5;Daniel 3:26 ✠ Lection: Isaiah 6:1-7;Romans 11:33-36;St. John 3:1-15 In the Name of the Father and of the ✠ Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. How can these things be? Nicodemus asked this after the Lord Jesus told him one of the very basics of the Christian faith. At first, the man had played dumb, but by this point in the conversation, maybe he truly was dumbfounded by how both profound and how simple it was what Jesus was saying. It’s not all that hard to be overwhelmed by the infinite truths about AlmightyRead More →