Article for New Year's Eve, December 31, 2025 Isaiah 30:15–16 15 For thus said the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, “In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and in trust shall be your strength.”  But you were unwilling, 16 and you said, “No! We will flee upon horses”; therefore you shall flee away; and, “We will ride upon swift steeds”; therefore your pursuers shall be swift.  This is talking about faith or lack of.  Strength comes from faith and with true fai

Article for January 11, 2026 Matthew 3:15b–17  15b “Let it be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.”   16 And when Jesus was baptized, immediately he went up from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him; 17 and behold, a voice from heaven said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.” We are celebrating the baptism of Jesus Christ who did n

Article for December 28, 2025 Galatians 4:4–5  4 When the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, 5 to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. We have been reading the Old Testament and have followed mankind from its beginning up to Saul and his successor David from the House of Jesse.  We have witnessed the many sins of mankind from Adam and Eve to Saul, and we know the sins of David will a

Article for Christmas Eve, December 24, 2025 Luke 2:1–3  1 In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. 2 This was the first registration when Quirinius was governor of Syria. 3 And all went to be registered, each to his own town. Ah! Don’t you just love those politicians?  These, like all politicians, come up with more ways to cost people more money.  Taxes were already being collected but efficiency collects more.  Caesar nee

Article for December 21, 2025, fourth Sunday in Advent Luke 2:4–7  4 And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the town of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David, 5 to be registered with Mary, his betrothed, who was with child. 6And while they were there, the time came for her to give birth. 7 And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling cloths and laid him in a manger, bec

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 November 26, 2025, Thanksgiving Deuteronomy 8:1  1 “The whole commandment that I command you today you shall be careful to do, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land that the Lord swore to give to your fathers. Let us take this as a statement made to each of us who fear and love the Lord.  The commands are still the same and are augmented by the great commands given to us by Jesus Christ our Lord to which He tells us to love the Lord our Go

Article for November 23, 2025, last Sunday in the church year. Colossians 1:13–14  13 He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, 14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. Do we understand true repentance, true forgiveness, true redemption, and true salvation?  To some they take these words seriously, to others they are not sure, and to others they are not ready to listen.  These are the true times that w

Article for November 16, 2025 All verses are from the ESV. Malachi 4:1 1 “For behold, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble. The day that is coming shall set them ablaze, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch. The day is coming, it may be close, it may be in our lifetime, and it might not.  Some say the signs are here.  Others say the signs have been here since the time Jesus walke

Article for November 9, 2025 2 Thessalonians 2:1–2 1 Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to him, we ask you, brothers, 2 not to be quickly shaken in mind or alarmed, either by a spirit or a spoken word, or a letter seeming to be from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come. We do not know when Jesus will appear again.  We should know that we must prepare ourselves for when Jesus does appear again.  There are many thin

Article for November Isaiah 1:12–14  12 “When you come to appear before me, who has required of you this trampling of my courts?  13 Bring no more vain offerings; incense is an abomination to me.  New moon and Sabbath and the calling of convocations— I cannot endure iniquity and solemn assembly.  14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates; they have become a burden to me; I am weary of bearing them. Do you go to church?  Good.  Do you come to worship God and re

Article for October 26, 2025 Luke 18:9–10 9 [Jesus] also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous,...

Article for October 12, 2025 2 Timothy 2:1–2 1 You then, my child, be strengthened by the grace that is in Christ Jesus, 2 and what you...

165 Article for October 5, 2025 Luke 17:1–2 1[Jesus] said to his disciples, “Temptations to sin are sure to come, but woe to the one...

Article for October 19, 2025 2 Timothy 3:14–15 14 As for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from...