Martin Luther's Evening Prayer

The conversion of Paul from persecutor to missionary illustrates God's sovereign will in calling us to faith. Send us Fan Mail

Hunger shows our need for food, but without knowledge we may consume what is poisonous. God guides us us to food that is nourishing for the body and also for the soul. Send us Fan Mail

"He gives to his beloved sleep." God's gift is not worry and care, but confidence and the gift of rest when we sleep. The world continues when we have checked out and we can be confident that God is the One who sustains it.  Send us Fan Mail

"Easy as pie" we say, but have you ever made a pie from scratch? Yet there are some ways in which the Kingdom of God may be compared to this common baked item. Send us Fan Mail

The love of a father is different from the love of a mother. Fathers can walk away. If a father is in your life it is by his choice and not by his need. God is such a Father who chooses to concern Himself with us as His children. He needs nothing from us, but gave His dearly beloved Son to save us. Send us Fan Mail

Human instinct relies on its own goodness or righteousness. But this is part of the self-justifying self-centeredness which shows we are lost in sin. We need a better righteousness provided by another, what Luther calls an alien righteousness. Jesus Chriost has provided that so that we rely on Him alone to be made right with God. Send us Fan Mail

Americans stress individual sin to the extent that we overlook corporate sin, the sin that envelopes us through social acceptance. We are to repent of our part in such corporate sin and beware of the consequence of such sin to the body guilty of such. Send us Fan Mail

St. Paul struggles with the heartache that comes to those who love the lost, those who refuse the message of salvation in Christ. Many believers today suffer great heartache when their children reject the faith. This love for the lost is a burden that Christ has for each of those who reject Him and we are invited to share that burden of love with Him. Send us Fan Mail

The Commandments are recited with a prayer that our hearts may incline toward God's revealed will Send us Fan Mail

The Lord's Supper is celebrated by Lutherans emphasizing the Real Presence of Christ in the elements offered to the communicants. Send us Fan Mail

The Tre Ore devotions are prayed during the "Three Hours" of darkness during which Christ hung upon the cross, Noon to 3:00 p.m. This is part one, Noon to 12:30 p.m. Send us Fan Mail

This creed is used on Trinity Sunday because it spells out the Christian teaching on who God is- Father Son and Holy Spirit, three persons and yet one God, and on who Christ is- God and Man in the same person. Send us Fan Mail

A Meditation for the Tenebrae service on Good Friday evening based on a text from Ruth whose mother-in-law Naomi took the name Mara (Mary) because of the loss of her sons. Send us Fan Mail

Christians emphasize right teaching about God, based on the Bible, and only this can be the basis for right praise of God. Psalm 145 exhibits this, and one sign of an orthodox church is that her people pray the Psalms. The devil gives us false expectations of God and then uses our disappointment to destroy our faith. Our confidence is based on what God has promised, not on what He hasn't. Sen...

This meditation considers our present experience of knowing Christ by His Word (His message) which is the "third Advent" after the first (His birth in Bethlehem fulfilling Old Testament prophecy), and the second (His coming to judge the world at the end of time). Send us Fan Mail

The Church's night prayer, Compline, is prayed and a homily explains the meaning of Advent- the season of anticipation of the arrival of our promised Lord. Send us Fan Mail

Several choral selections celebrate the advent of our Savior. St. John's Lutheran Church Adult Choir is directed by Wallace C. Winters, Junior. Send us Fan Mail

God foretold the prophet Isaiah that Death will not have the last word for God's people. Send us Fan Mail

We have received forgiveness from God; but it may not stop there. Like water in a pipe, forgiveness must flow through us to others. It is not a law that we must forgive in order to be forgiven, but IF we are forgiven, we will extend that forgiveness to others. Matthew 18 gives a picture of how this might work in the Christian community. Send us Fan Mail

What do we have in common with the great heroes of faith we commonly think of as saints? The same power of God for the gift of faith is what. So we rejoice in our shared salvation and look forward to what God will reveal us to be when He appears. Send us Fan Mail

When the Lord Jesus Christ returns at the end of time, the dead will be raised and we who are alive will be taken up to meet the Lord in the sky(Heavens) and will be forever with the Lord. Some are mislead by false teachings, notably that of the Schofield Reference Bible, popularized in the "Left Behind" best sellers/movies, which speak of earth's continued existence after the Raptu...

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Sin seems like play until it catches you in its grip. David was trapped by his own sin, and to escape he committed more and grosser sin. But God's mercy was manifested to David to confront his sin, and to repent. It cost David the life of his son- the infant born of his sin, and later, the promised Son o who was both David's Son and David's Lord. We can learn from David's examp...

Change just the location name, and the passage from Paul's first letter to the church in Thessalonika sounds like it could have been written by the great reformer, Martin Luther. That is because the Reformation movement of the 16th Century was at its heart the recovery of the Gospel of grace through faith in Christ. Send us Fan Mail

An Advent meditation on the Day of the Lord and what this implies for good and for ill, for judgment and for vindication- messages of Law and Gospel. Send us Fan Mail