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In the Name of the Father and of the ✠ Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Lent, which by week’s end shall be already halfway over, is a blessèd and necessary annual re-training of the Christian heart with the goal of bringing us, and our whole person, back to reality. We all need Lent, at minimum annually, for none of us shall shed the need of discovering and repenting of the sins in our lives until the Lord returns or until He ends this life of sin by death to draw us to Him yonder. We will only be done with our fight againstRead More →

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✠ Psalmody: Psalm 31:6b–7a; 1; Psalm 6:2a, 2b-3a; Psalm 103:10; 79:8–9; Psalm 109:21a; Psalm 16:11a ✠ Lection: Exodus 20:12-24a ; Matthew 15:1-20 In the Name of the Father and of the ✠ Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. From atop Mount Sinai thundered the Lord’s giving of the Ten Commandments; good and holy words from a good and holy God. Every single one of them pure, without a shred of cruelty in them that should ever cause us to detest their existence. They describe a reality that exists in and by the one Who Is. May we never view or treat the Law of God asRead More →

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✠ Psalmody: Psalm 25:15–16; 1–2a; Psalm 9:19, 3; Psalm 123:1–3a; Psalm 19:8a, 10b–11a; Psalm 84:3–4 ✠ Lection: Exodus 8:16–24; Ephesians 5:1–9; Luke 11:14–28 In the Name of the Father and of the ✠ Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Grosser than a bulletin graphic of a mute demon coming out of a man’s mouth is the widespread effect of sin, demons, and the prince of demons upon us. Jesus is the greater prince, the Prince of Peace, Who holds authority over the winds and the sea, over the powers and principalities waging war in the heavenly places all for the spoils of the souls of man.Read More →