Stay-at-home health precautions keep us from occupying the pews today.  Yet electronically and “in spirit,” we join our voices.  We praise our Savior-God who, as Isaiah stated, set His “face like flint” to head to the cross for you and me and all sinners.  “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!  […]

“Pray therefore that God will awaken you, open your heart and anoint your eyes so that you can see the distress you are in and also grasp the help and the strength which He brings in His Word so that you can arise from sleep, and as one who is risen with Christ seek the […]

How is God using the present crisis for our nation, our world, and ourselves?  No one can ever presume to know the mind of God.  His ways far exceed our surmising.  But we can see certain things happening that square with what we find in God’s Word.  People are being brought to their knees.  It […]

The pandemic, or panic-demic, is casting a pall of deadly fear over the globe. People want to hear from government officials.  They want to hear most of all from the medical experts and the vaccination researchers. The public wants to be assured and reassured that the ones in the know are – to their best […]

The ELS Catechism reminds us of our duty to our country: What is our duty to our country? It is our duty to love our country, obey its laws, assist its officials in keeping law and order, and promote its general welfare. (ELS Catechism, p. 56) Given the current pandemic growing in our country, the […]