Sent to Serve
Sent to Serve “[T]he Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.” Matthew 20:28 Students across the country are celebrating National Lutheran Schools Week with special events all week long. In normal years these activities range from chapel services...
Making All Things New
Making All Things New Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud...
Praying the O Antiphons of Advent
Praying the O Antiphons of Advent O come, O come Emmanuel And ransom captive Israel That mourns in lonely exile here Until the Son of God appear. Rejoice, rejoice Emmanuel Shall come to thee O Israel! (LSB 357 v. 1) For more than a thousand years, the Church has been...
Advent Comfort
Advent Comfort “Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received from the Lord’s hand double for all her sins.” Isaiah 40:1-2 December 7, 1941…a date which will live in...
The Work of God’s Hands
But now, O Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand. Isaiah 64:8 The late Reinhold Marxhausen was an eccentric art professor at Concordia University Nebraska. Among Marxhausen's contributions to art was the unique fact that he...