Loved ones…you who are loved by our Lord,   Valentine’s Day is Friday.  But that day is more than just remembering your loved one (spouse, girlfriend or boyfriend…).  It is remembering what St. Valentine represented to the church at large in his day–and through the ages since.  Here’s just a tidbit of information. A physician […]

Dear children of God through faith in Christ, “STAND.”  Our Synod has announced that to be the theme that they are advocating, publicizing over the next three years.  It is based on Luther’s unmovable stand when he made his great confession of the truth of God’s holy Word at the Diet of Worms in 1521, before […]

Dear redeemed in Christ, OUR LAST GREAT ENEMY IS DESTROYED!   Imagine that headline pasted on the front page of all the major newspapers in our area and all over this land.  What news!  Death destroyed!  Live forever!  And then, what joy!  Can you believe it? Of course, all these things are true!  I didn’t make them […]

Did you get up this morning and consider your sins–confess them to God and ask for His forgiveness for Jesus’ sake? Did you begin your day as God intended you to begin it as His dear baptized child of grace–begging for mercy because of your sins? Did you begin your day as a GRACE DAY? In Word and Prayer?

Friends in Christ Jesus, our Lord of mercy, Today, on this the 41st Anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Roe vs. Wade decision to legalize abortion, here are some startling numbers: Since the Supreme Court’s decision in 1973, more than 55 million children have been aborted in the United States. The current estimate for the number of […]