Article for Wednesday Dec 17, 2025   James 5:7a  7 Be patient, therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord . Will the Lord really come again?  Is this not something told to us to keep us doing good.  What if He never comes, have we waisted our time believing in some old fairytale?  Many ask and many start to doubt, but I am talking about those who were seeking Jesus to be born.  Though some may not have figured it out that Jesus was going to come as a baby born to a vir

Article for December 14, 2025 Matthew 1:24b and they shall call his name Immanuel” (which means, God with us). For a time and a time God’s first chosen people looked for a savior to come.  This is a story cloned into many fictional odysseys.  A nation looking for a savior and people who try to destroy the savior before salvation can take hold of those who follow the hero of the story.  This (about Jesus the Christ) though is not a story, but a documented history by one and a

Article for Wednesday December 7, 2025 Advent I saiah 11:1–2  1 There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse, and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit.  2 And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord. From Jesse to David and from David the branch to Jesus the Christ.  From the Father to the Son and from the Father and the Son the Holy Spir

Article for Sunday December 7, 2025 John 1:1–5  1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4 In him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. Darkness is equated to sin, and we know that sin carries the penalty of death.  This death we spe

Article for December 3, 2025 first Wednesday in Advent Romans 13:12–14  12 The night is far gone; the day is at hand. So then let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light. 13 Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in quarreling and jealousy. 14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires. Put on Christ Jesus as a garment made up

Article for November 30, 2025, first Sunday in Advent John 11:23–24  23 Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.” 24 Martha said to him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day.” How does one prepare for Jesus?  Should you be on your best behavior?  Maybe make sure you are doing a lot to help others?  Make sure you have repented for all your sins?  Maybe memorize the small catechism all over again?  Or maybe we should get into a heavy bibl

Article for December 22, 2024 Micah 5:2  2  But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you...

Article for Advent service December 18, 2024 1 Timothy 4:1–3   1 Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from...

Article for December 15, 2024 Philippians 4:4–5a 4Rejoice in the Lord always; again, I will say, Rejoice. 5 Let your reasonableness be...

Article for Dec 11, 2024 Revelation 20:1–3  1 Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the bottomless...

Article for December 8, 2024 Malachi 3:1 1 “Behold, I send my messenger and he will prepare the way before me. And the Lord whom you...

Article for Sunday Dec 17, 2023 1 Thessalonians 5:16–18 16Rejoice always, 17pray without ceasing, 18give thanks in all circumstances; for...

Article for December 10, 2023 2 Peter 3:13–14 13But according to his promise we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which...

Article for December 3, 2023 Isaiah 64:1–2 1Oh that you would rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains might quake at your...