Holy Cross Day & St. Michael and All Angels: Home Altars and Blackberry Crumble
In September, the church changes her focus to the End Times and our Lord’s final victory over sin, death and the devil for us on the cross.
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Our Bodies: Created Good, Redeemed for Eternity
People often ask what heaven will be like. We know what it will be like. We’ll be like Jesus, body and soul. And we’ll enjoy a flesh-and-blood eternity.
Gifted Bodies: A Lutheran Theology of the Body
Our bodily life comes from the living God. We have not made ourselves. Nor can we remake ourselves.
St. Mary Lavender Cookies and Gardens
Mary is a prime example of receptive faith, of hearing the Word of God and submitting to it.
Lutherans and the Lord’s Supper: Holding to the Words of Christ
According to Luther and our Lutheran confession, the Lord’s Supper is the Gospel: “Given and shed for you.”
‘With All the Company of Heaven’: Angels, Saints and Our Departed Loved Ones at the Lord’s Table
That “company of heaven” includes all the saints who have died in Christ and now live with Him.
Suffering Produces Endurance
We believe that God works profound blessings through suffering, even when those blessings may not be at all evident to us.
Endurance in Jesus
The Lord undoes our fear and dismay. “Fear not.” Why? The Lord promises, “I am with you.”
Two Saints of Summer: J.S. Bach Kugelhopf
Both John the Baptist and J.S. Bach serve as examples of how Christians reflect the light of Christ.
The Council of Nicaea: How the Early Church Sought Unity — With the Help of an Emperor
A history of the Council of Nicaea and the events that led up to it.
Eastertide: Lamb Cake and Ascension Picnicking
As the Easter celebration continues (this year through the entire month of May), Christians will run into another important marker of the season: Ascension Day.
Very God of Very God: The Nicene Creed’s Faithful Testimony
The creedal statements about Christ in our Nicene Creed express the clear truth about Jesus. He is God in the flesh.