Yesterday we entered the Season of Advent, a time when God would show us His Son, Jesus. “Behold, Your King is Coming!” is one of the Advent themes.      Sight is one of the greatest gifts we have.  The human eye is one of the...

One hymn that is sung in most all Thanksgiving worship services is the hymn We Praise Thee, O God. It was written by a young woman named Julia Cady.  Her father was a longtime Sunday School superintendent at a church in New York City.  When in her...

One of my favorite hymns for Thanksgiving is Now Thank We All Our God. It was written by a Lutheran Pastor, Martin Rinkart, during the Thirty Years War in Germany. As the only pastor in Eilenberg, he conducted funerals for 5,000 residents, including...

The Old Testament Lesson appointed for Thanksgiving Day is Deuteronomy 8:1-10.   It is one of Moses’ sermons.  Verse 2 says: “And you shall remember all the way which the Lord your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness….” One...

Luke, the Evangelist, records the story of Jesus healing ten lepers in chapter 17 of his Gospel. The ten lepers cried out to Jesus for healing. He told them to go to the priests, and on the way they were healed.  Nine of them never returned to Jesus...