thinking-out-loud

“Thank God,” Dr. Luther once remarked, “even a seven-year-old child knows what a shepherd is and does.” He feeds and tends the lambs and she...

So, we’ve got just two short verses pulled out of their context from the midst of a complex assortment of rather odd and sometimes challengi...

Jesus addresses this Word, in the first place, to those Jews who believed in Him. They had that much right, superficially at least, though t...

It is truly meet, right, and salutary that we should give all thanks and praise to God, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, for His precious a...

Do not suppose that you are safe, keeping your head down and focusing on your own family, or, even more narrowly, focusing on yourself and “...

The Augustana confesses and identifies the Church as “the assembly of saints in which the Gospel is taught purely and the Sacraments are adm...

Here and now, on this Fortieth Day of Christmas, the Lord has brought you once again to His Holy Temple, that you should receive and worship...