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In the Name of the Father and of the ✠ Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. We know that the Holy Christian Church has crafted the sacred 40 days of Lent as an allusion to other 40s found in the Scriptures, one of them being the 40 years that Israel wandered in the wilderness as Moses records for us in Exodus and beyond. Chapter 16 brings us into their 40 to hear that the whole congregation of the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness. And the children of Israel said to them, “Oh, that we had died by theRead More →

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✠ Psalmody: Ezekiel 36:23b, 24b, 25a, 26a; Psalm 34:1; Psalm 34:11, 5; 33:12, 6; Psalm 103:10; 79:8–9; Psalm 66:8–9, 20; John 9:11 ✠ Lection: Ezekiel 36:23a, 23c-28; Isaiah 1:16-19 ; John 9:1-38 In the Name of the Father and of the ✠ Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. It’s no light matter to be a prophet, or to at least speak as one. For what is a prophet? It is a man who speaks on behalf of God. This very fact alone makes such speech highly important, for who would dare speak on behalf of the all-mighty, all-powerful Creator of all things without being told, asked,Read More →

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✠ Psalmody: Isaiah 66:10a, 11a; Psalm 122:1; Psalm 122:1, 7; Psalm 125:1–2; Psalm 135:3, 6a; Psalm 122:3–4 ✠ Lection: Exodus 16:2–21; Galatians 4:22—5:1a; John 6:1–15 In the Name of the Father and of the ✠ Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. The Lord is always right on time. He is neither early nor late, for His ways are perfect. Whether we see our current time as a heyday, on the verge of one, or far beyond the last hope of one, none of this time has the significance of what is to come in the life of the world to come. As we journey through thisRead More →