February 2025

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✠ Psalmody: Psalm 44:23-24a, 25b-26a, 44:1a; Psalm 83:18, 13; Psalm 60:2, 4b, 5a; Psalm 17:5, 6b–7a; Psalm 43:4a ✠ Lection: Isaiah 55:10–13;2 Corinthians 11:19—12:9;Luke 8:4–15 In the Name of the Father and of the ✠ Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. As Christians, and especially as Lutherans, we should be familiar with the idea of Sola Scriptura, a Latin phrase translated as Scripture Alone. We measure all things seen and unseen by Scripture alone, by God’s Word alone, for it alone is His special revelation that endures forever. In our faithful confessional documents collected in the Book of Concord, the Reformers boldly state “We believe, teach,Read More →

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✠ Psalmody: Psalm 18:4a, 5a, 6a, c, 18:1-2a; Psalm 9:9b–10, 18–19a; Psalm 130:1–4; Psalm 92:1; Psalm 31:16–17a ✠ Lection: Daniel 9:2-10; 1 Corinthians 9:24—10:4; Matthew 20:1–16 In the Name of the Father and of the ✠ Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. So, the last will be first, and the first last. With these words, the dear Lord Jesus calls us to judge wisely and correctly, to make necessary distinction between truth and lie, between labor and idleness, between good and evil, between how God sees us and how we see Him. Such distinctions are necessary in this life, for the need to cultivate and laborRead More →

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✠ Psalmody: Psalm 2:7b; 1; Psalm 110:3, 1; Wisdom 7:26; Psalm 93:1b–2; Psalm 110:3b ✠ Lection: Exodus 34:29–35; 2 Peter 1:16–21; Matthew 17:1–9 In the Name of the Father and of the ✠ Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. On this day when we remember the bright glory of Christ shining upon the mount, we first consider the darkness shrouding the Lord at Sinai. Indeed, when Moses entered into the Divine Presence in the Tent of Meeting, he would come out with face all aglow. The elements of light stand in contrast to the conclusion of the first giving of the Ten Commandments when “the peopleRead More →

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(printed on bulletin insert on February 9, 2025) adapted from: Rev. Stefan Michael Gramenz, Evangelical Lutheran Church of Christ the King, Pawling, NY Next Sunday, we will begin the season of Septuagesima, sometimes also called “Gesimatide” or “Pre-Lent,” a period of three Sundays that leads up to Ash Wednesday. Septuagesima is related to the Latin word for “Seventy,” and is roughly seventy days before Easter. The following Sunday is Sexagesima, about sixty days before Easter, and then follows Quinquagesima, about fifty days before Easter. This brief season of the Church’s year looks back to the Biblical account of the Israelites’ seventy-year captivity in exile inRead More →

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✠ Psalmody: Psalm 48:9-10, 1; Psalm 48:9-10a, 48:8a;Psalm 45:2b; Luke 2:26 ✠ Lection: Malachi 3:1–4; Hebrews 2:14–18; Luke 2:22-32 In the Name of the Father and of the ✠ Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. We think, on this 40th Day of Christmas, upon the infant Lord Jesus again and the precious life that God gives from the point of conception. It was at that point in the womb of the Blessed Virgin Mary that the Holy Son of God entered into Creation unlike ever before. Indeed, there were theophanies throughout the Old Testament, that is, instances of God revealing Himself as He walked with ourRead More →