Almighty God, whose Son our Savior Jesus Christ is the light of the world: Grant that your people, illumined by your Word and Sacraments, may shine with the radiance of Christ’s glory, that he may be known, worshiped, and obeyed to the ends of the earth; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, one God, now and for ever. Amen. Read more
The polar bear baby video and a picture and now a name: |inline Read more
I’m not here quoting the Beatles, but setting up a sentence. If you are setting up a home, or going off to college, or you need to fix something, there are only two items you will need in your home: duct tape and hydrocortisone. Around here the former fixes all household items and the latter all manner of skin ailments. What are your one-size fixes everything? Read more
One of the most rugged realities of human and Christian existence finds best expression in words like darkness and separation. Those who dispute the value of the word “sin” or the reality of a “fall” fail, so I think, to plumb the realities of existence. The ancient world was much more at home in the reality of darkness, of human sinfulness, and in the comprehensive story of tragedy — just read the Greeks — than we are today. So, when... Read more
There are better books on the King James Version, there are better books on the rise of English Bibles, and there are better books on the technique of translation, but there is no better book that tells the behind-the-scenes story of the King James Bible than that of God’s Secretaries by Adam Nicolson. I took this book on vacation to browse through and couldn’t put it down. |inline Read more
On January 18, the Church celebrates the day of her founding. She recalls with awe the assertion of a Galilean fisherman, “You are the Christ,” and the response of the God-among-us, “Upon this rock, I will found my church.” |inline Read more
Our 15th reference to kingdom is found in Mark 11:10 but we need the immediate context too: 4 They went and found a colt outside in the street, tied at a doorway. As they untied it, 5 some people standing there asked, “What are you doing, untying that colt?” 6 They answered as Jesus had told them to, and the people let them go. 7 When they brought the colt to Jesus and threw their cloaks over it, he sat... Read more
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In 1919 Babe Ruth was sold from the Boston Red Sox to the New York Yankees, and it took 85 years for the Red Sox to win another World Series. It happened in 2004. Antony Flew tells us that it was the same year that he, one of the world’s most famous atheists, switched teams to a belief in God. Flew, son of a famous Methodist theologian, tells the odyssey of his journey from faith to atheism and then back... Read more
Mark 10:23-25, three more references to kingdom, say about the rich young ruler’s response to Jesus: 23 Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, “How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!” 24 The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus said again, “Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God! 25 It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich... Read more
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