For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven. Ecclesiastes 3:1 For everything there is a season, a time for every matter in life. Our good God orders all things in heaven and on earth. In our lives of faith, we can say the same. Our Lord works all things for the eternal good of those who love him! Each year he gives is another year of his grace and we can give him thanks as he makes everything beautiful in its time. In the church year we follow a

Pointing to the Rock of Ages Not the labor of my hands Can fulfill Thy Law’s demands; Could my zeal no respite know, Could my tears forever flow, All for sin could not atone; Thou must save, and Thou alone. (LSB 761:2) While the classic hymn “Rock of Ages” shows up in the Lutheran Service Book in the “Hope and Comfort” section, it can also teach us a valuable lesson about Christian stewardship. If that surprises you, stay with me on this one.  No Lutheran would ever dispute t

“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.” Romans 12:2 A number of years ago an article was published in Modern Reformation entitled Wanted: Thinking Christians. The writer argued that there is hardly a Christian mind at all today in the sense of a common way of thinking as Christian people. He says that we act and we react but do not consider nor contemplat

"Accept, I pray, the freewill offerings of my mouth, O LORD.” Psalm 119:108 In the Divine Service the Offertory was anciently a chant of...

" But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity....

" Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,...

As the deer pants for the water brooks, So pants my soul for You, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come...