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The Star Proclaims

The weighty hymn “The Star Proclaims the King Is Here” (LSB 399) is an ancient hymn excerpted from the same poem as our Christmas hymn …
Epiphany: the ‘Other’ Christmas

Epiphany is Christmas 2.0. Its conspicuous place following the nativity narrative in Matthew’s Gospel presents it as the “other Christmas,” the “Christmas of the Gentiles.” At the first Christmas we find a swaddled baby in a manger visited by shepherds from the fields summoned by angels. In the “other Christmas,” we find a toddler at
O Holy Nights

The saints go marching all year long. Maybe your family’s Christmas season is colored by some happy birthdays or sad memories.

Fast Before You Feast

An abundance of good things can fool us into believing we deserve everything we have and just a little bit more, too.

Body and Soul; Bytes and Screens

Does this article exist? You can’t hold it in your hands, turn the pages, mark it up with a pen and highlighter, or crumple it up …
Victims and Heroes

You can hear the laments of victims crying out for justice and you can also see the heroes patting themselves on the back.
World-Peace

“Every civilized man wants peace.” What peace does the world so earnestly desire? The peace that comes from …
‘If We Are Faithless …’

We’ve all certainly heard of “eleventh-hour conversions” … Would this have been the opposite? Eleventh-hour wavering? Deathbed doubt?

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