Luke 14:1-11

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In the Name of the Father and of the ✠ Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath, or not?” Such was the absurd question that the Lord Jesus had to pose to the Pharisees to point out how far their self-righteousness standards had grown to govern how they thought of other people and how it crowded out of them true, humble godliness and the fundamental characteristic of the law: to love. They had inverted the heart of God’s law, that is, to love God and to love neighbor, in order that they may be loved above allRead More →

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✠ Psalmody: Psalm 119:137, 124a; 1; Psalm 33:12, 6; Psalm 115:11; Daniel 9:4, 17a, 19b; Psalm 76:11–12 ✠ Lection: Proverbs 25:6–14; Ephesians 4:1–6; Luke 14:1–11 In the Name of the Father and of the ✠ Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. We all want the world to be a better place, or at least a good place, which would mean a betterment of it if we see we’re not there yet. Unfortunately, though, many an idea of better originates in the sinful heart of fallen man and are focused on what each individual person deems and wants his better world to be like. Hence, we returnRead More →

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(Transcribed by TurboScribe.ai.) In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. One of the greatest tactics of the enemy in our day is distraction. Distraction by politics, distraction by TV, distraction by handheld screens, distraction by social media, distraction by jobs, distraction by entertainment, distraction by hobbies, distraction by leisure, distraction by on and on and on in a land with so great many things, the list surely is endless. From what have these things distracted us? We’ve become distracted from the table fellowship of Christ our Lord. Table fellowship can be understood in this way when IRead More →

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The Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity – Sunday 1 October A✠D 2023 ✠ Psalmody: Psalm 119:137, 124; 1–2, 5–6;33:12, 6;116:1 ✠ Lection: Proverbs 25:6–14;Ephesians 4:1–6;Luke 14:1–11 In the Name of the Father and of the ✠ Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. We all want the world to be a better place, or at least a good place by what we each understand as good, which would mean a betterment of it if we’re not there yet by our individual measures. If we say that we desire unity among all peoples, then here it is: we all want something better. We’re at least unified in that desire.Read More →