Trinity 21

In the Name of the Father and of the ✠ Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Today we remember the Lutheran Reformation; the events, the people that God aused to return His Church to the purity and truth of His Holy Word just over 500 years ago. A lowly monk had questions that he wanted to discuss with the learned men of the Church, because his own wrestling with and meditation upon the Scriptures had opened his eyes to the spiritual danger Christ’s Church was increasingly facing due to doctrines and desires of men being exalted above those of God. It is by thisRead More →

In the Name of the Father and of the ✠ Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. We love our independence, our strength, our inherit ability to get done what needs to be done, even if speaking merely of personal daily tasks. As creatures prone toward pride, anything that lends toward us seeing how good we are is likely to be taken in favor. The longest season of the Church Year, Trinitytide, is nearly all passed by already, in much of a blur in many of our perspectives, yet recall the pride recounted just before this season began; recall Pentecost and the hearts of theRead More →