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A Chapel Homily: From Darkness to Light
A Chapel Homily: From Darkness to Light

We have daily chapel at our school. Currently, we make use of the readings from the Treasury of Daily Prayer. Over the years this practice has proven to be a great blessing for not only our children, teachers, and few congregation members who attend but also for me as a pastor. Some might sulk at the thought of having to write multiple sermons each week and lament that “there’s not enough time.” In reality, though, it’s what pastors have been called to do, and we need to be doing it faithfully.

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John Bussman Comment
The Feast of the Nativity of Our Lord
The Feast of the Nativity of Our Lord

This sermon was preached by Fr Eckardt on December 24th, 2023 at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Kewanee, Illinois.

St. Luke 2:1-14

Oh, how joyful, how glorious is this night! It is wrapped in the goodness of God, and a night for all the world to celebrate, this marvelous night of the Savior’s birth.

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Burnell Eckardt Comment
Hermann Sasse, a liturgical theologian even as he arranged for the inscription on his tombstone
Hermann Sasse, a liturgical theologian even as he arranged for the inscription on his tombstone

Given the major role Hermann Sasse has played in my spiritual and scholarly life over the past five decades, informed Gottesblog readers will have no difficulty imagining my emotions as on the afternoon of the Last Sunday of the Church Year orthodox Australian Lutheran layman the retired physician Dr Ian Hamer drove a few of us to the Adelaide cemetery where this patriarch of 20th-century world Lutheranism was laid to rest on his falling asleep in 1976.

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John Stephenson Comments
Adeste Infideles?
Adeste Infideles?

This is a tale of two hymns. One, a traditional text written in Latin, popularly sung in many languages at Christmas around the world, including in our own churches: O Come, All Ye Faithful (LSB 379). The other, a modern-day adaptation called O Come All You Unfaithful.

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Larry Beane Comments
What a Lutheran Isn't
What a Lutheran Isn't

Whenever we Lutherans (so-called) enter a discussion on social media, we can count on people avoiding whatever issue we want to discuss, and instead pivoting to salacious accusations against Martin Luther.

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Larry Beane Comments
The Lord Is with You Where the Wild Things Are
The Lord Is with You Where the Wild Things Are

Because you are ransomed and redeemed by the Lord, reconciled to God, and righteous in His sight through faith in His Word, the roaring lion who is always on the prowl, always seeking to devour you, and the vicious beasts that would destroy you — they are all kept at bay. The wild things cannot harm you, because the Lord is with you. It often may not seem that way at all in your present experience. For here and now, in this body and life on earth, you still suffer harm and heartache, hurts and hungers, death and the grave. But have you not heard? Christ Jesus Himself has also suffered all of these things and more, and everything that you suffer. He has spent His time in the wilderness, where the wild things are.

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Advent, SermonRick StuckwischAdvent, Gaudete, SermonComment