Luke 15:11-31 Lent 4 March 14th, 2009 “Reckless Love” Reckless behavior. That's what sin is. It doesn't care about the consequences or whom it hurts. When you sin you even hurt yourself, but you aren't thinking about that usually. Sin doesn't...

Luke 13:1-9 Lent 3 March 7th, 2009 “Righteous and Wicked” Would you rather be righteous, or wicked? Without the context of Ezekiel 33, most of us would say “righteous”. But look carefully at the words of the prophet and you might want to...

Philippians 3:7 - 4:1 Lent 2 February 28th , 2009 “Us and Them” There are certain aspects of our culture that promote an “us and them” mentality. Sports is one of them - who doesn't like to root for “us” and against “them” Then...

An interesting insight from the sermon I heard at Pr. Roemke's church this weekend. Preaching on Christ's temptation, he said something like, "When the Devil uses God's Word for his purposes, Jesus answers with God's Word." We have a hermeneutical...

Thanks to Scott Diekmann for putting together a clearinghouse type list of numerous blog posts about the LCMS proposed restructuring: http://stand-firm.blogspot.com/2010/02/blue-ribbon-task-force-on-synod.html