When we look at God's Holy Law and consider our own sinfulness it becomes clear that there are many obstacles to our finding the narrow door that leads to eternal life. In fact, Jesus is the only one who could find it because He was perfect and sinless. Without Him, we would be among the many who would never find it! Today, Christ comes to us in Word and Sacrament to lift you up and carry you over the obstacles that block our access and across the threshold of that narrow door so that we may inherit eternal life. May God bless your hearing and your receiving today! (
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Our Epistle text this morning points out the "great cloud of witnesses" who persevered and held fast in spite of great adversity. "BY FAITH," that is, with the assumption that God's promises are sure and certain, these faith-filled men and women walked and lived their lives. But such perseverance is difficult. This morning, Jesus tells us that there is and will be division and conflict as the Word of His salvation goes forth. We see such division in Jeremiah's day even among the prophets within the kingdom of Judah. But through His death and resurrection, Jesus has kindled the fire of faith in the world. Now through Word and Sacrament, He keeps that fire burning and makes us each able to stand in the faith that He bestowed on Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the other faithful witnesses who have gone before us so that we too may endure until the end walking by faith and not by sight. (
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Jesus is THE Good Samaritan. Bruised, beaten and battered by sin, we are left by the devil, the world, and our own sin to die by the side of the road. But Christ came into the world to bind up our wounds and carried the weight of our sin upon His shoulders to the cross -- paying for our redemption and salvation with His own blood. (
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In June, we again enter, “Ordinary Time.” Unfortunately, to our ears, “Ordinary Time” in the church sounds boring and mundane. But, when we use the word “ordinary” in reference to these Sundays of the church year, we are not saying they are boring or mundane. The term simply indicates we are marking time using ordinal numbers – that is, we are counting the Sundays. (
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A series of 3 homilies delivered on Trinity Sunday as we acknowledged God's revelation of Himself as triune through our use of the Athanasian Creed. Homilies were jointly written by Rev. Randy Boelter and Elder Mark Gade and were delivered by Rev. Matthew Dent, Rev. Randy Boelter, and CtK Elder, Mark Gade. (
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Rev. Matthew Harrison, head of LCMS World Relief and Human Care preached an excellent sermon at Concordia Theological Seminary, Ft. Wayne on Friday, April 30th. His sermon makes reference to the number of candidates that did not receive calls this week from that institution.
You can hear his sermon from his blog by going:
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When we celebrate the day of Pentecost we are, in a real sense, celebrating the birth of the Christian Church.
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Current reports indicate that 32 seminarians who have spent the last 4 years preparing to be under-shepherds in Christ's church will not be placed in a congregation when the LCMS Seminaries announce placements this week. (
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Dr. Steven Hein of the Concordia Institute for Christian Studies on Issues, Etc. discusses how to respond to arguments against Christ's resurrection. (
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On the night when He was betrayed, our Lord prayed about that time when He would return to the Father and His followers would no longer see Him in the world. We now live in that time - the time between when our Lord ascended into heaven and when He shall come again to judge both the living and the dead. His prayer for us was that we would be united in the same way that He and the Father are. As the Lord of the Church, He ascended on into heaven and continues to pray for us and continues to work in the world to make us and keep us united in Him through the work of the Holy Spirit as we strive and contend to retain purity of doctrine and practice so that all may know that He was sent by the Father to redeem all mankind. (
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