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In the Name of the Father and of the ✠ Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Why do we celebrate the Feast of All Saints? The reasons lie in what you’ve been listening to from the Scriptures as we chanted portions in the Introit, Gradual, and Alleluia Verse; in what you gladly hear and learn in Revelation, 1 John, and St. Matthew; in what, with your blessed brothers and sisters in the Lord, you boldly sing in the hymns that teach and confess the precious counsel of the Word of God. “All Saints.” What does this mean? What it doesn’t mean is what someRead More →

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In the Name of the Father and of the ✠ Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. The Revelation of Jesus Christ to St. John, the final book of the Holy Scriptures, is not written to be a troubling puzzle but a comforting and reassuring vision of what is, what was, and what is to come. Avoid not the words within it, for the book itself begins with promise: Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written in it; for the time is near. On this All Saints Day, hear the WordRead More →

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Guest Pastor: Rev. Allen Lunneberg (Transcribed by TurboScribe.ai) In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, Amen. With the approach of the closing chapters of the church year, our annual task of proclaiming the entire gospel of salvation today is given a standing ovation by the entire body of Christ. The whole church, throughout the world, of every time and every place, and as we say at the celebration of every Lord’s Supper, with angels and archangels and all the company of heaven. From Advent, through Christmas, Epiphany, through Lent and the great Holy Week, from Easter, throughRead More →