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MATINS DEVOTIONS
Pastor Hans Fiene
Nov 19, 20247 min read
Matins Devotions: November 11-15
MONDAY Matthew 25:31–46 Without thinking too deeply about our text from Matthew this morning, it can look like the sheep and the goats...
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Pastor Hans Fiene
Nov 8, 20245 min read
Matins Devotions: November 4-8, 2024
MONDAY Matthew 22:23-46 As we see throughout the Gospels and certainly in our reading from Matthew this morning, the Pharisees are always...
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Pastor Hans Fiene
Nov 8, 20247 min read
Matins Devotions: October 28-November 1, 2024
MONDAY John 15:12-21 Today is the feast of St. Simon and St. Jude, two apostles we know very little about. Although they do share names...
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Pastor Hans Fiene
Nov 8, 20243 min read
Matins Devotions: October 23-24, 2024
WEDNESDAY Matthew 13:54-58 When it comes to the folks who lived in Nazareth as Jesus was growing up there, I imagine they were probably...
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Pastor Hans Fiene
Nov 8, 20246 min read
Matins Devotions: October 14-18, 2024
MONDAY Matthew 12:38-50 There’s a general rule in life that I think can help temper our anger and pride, a rule that goes something like...
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Pastor Hans Fiene
Oct 10, 20242 min read
Matins Devotion: October 10, 2024
Matthew 11:1-19 “Truly, I say to you, among those born of women there has arisen no one greater than John the Baptist. Yet the one who is...
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Pastor Hans Fiene
Oct 9, 20242 min read
Matins Devotion: October 9, 2024
Matthew 10:24-42 When Jesus tells us that He has come to set family members against each other, sons against fathers, daughters against...
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Pastor Hans Fiene
Oct 9, 20242 min read
Matins Devotion: October 8, 2024
Matthew 10:1-23 Very often we Lutherans are accused of not caring about evangelism because we don’t invite people to church very often or...
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Pastor Hans Fiene
Oct 9, 20242 min read
Matins Devotion: October 7, 2024
Matthew 9:18-38 When the mourners at the house of the ruler hear Jesus say that the man’s daughter is not dead but sleeping, they laugh...
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Pastor Hans Fiene
Oct 4, 20242 min read
Matins Devotion: October 4, 2024
Deuteronomy 4:21-40 If you want to understand the love of God, go first to the Scriptures. Read them, study them, rejoice in them. And...
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Pastor Hans Fiene
Oct 3, 20242 min read
Matins Devotion: October 3, 2024
Matthew 7:13-29 On the one hand, salvation is an easy road to walk. On the other hand, it’s profoundly difficult. On the one hand,...
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Pastor Hans Fiene
Oct 2, 20242 min read
Matins Devotion: October 2, 2024
Matthew 7:1-12 When Jesus tells us to remove the log from our own eye before we remove the speck from our neighbor’s eye, what does He...
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Pastor Hans Fiene
Oct 2, 20242 min read
Matins Devotion: October 1, 2024
Matthew 6:16-34 Earlier this morning, I saw a photograph on social media. It was taken by a woman in Asheville, North Carolina as she,...
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Pastor Hans Fiene
Sep 30, 20242 min read
Matins Devotion: September 30, 2024
Matthew 6:1-15 There’s something almost comical about the way Jesus gives us the Lord’s Prayer. Right before giving us these words, He...
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Pastor Hans Fiene
Sep 27, 20242 min read
Matins Devotion: September 27, 2024
Malachi 3:6-4:6 In Hebrew, “semes” is the word for the giant star that gives light to our planet. And “ben” is the word for a man’s male...
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Pastor Hans Fiene
Sep 25, 20242 min read
Matins Devotion: September 25, 2024
Malachi 1 When God tells His people through the prophet Malachi, “Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated,” He’s not really speaking...
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Pastor Hans Fiene
Sep 25, 20242 min read
Matins Devotion: September 24, 2024
1 Timothy 6:3-21 I often say that hell is loving things that don’t love you back. And money is certainly something that won’t love you...
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Pastor Hans Fiene
Sep 23, 20242 min read
Matins Devotion: September 23, 2024
Nehemiah 9:22-38 If we want to be good students of Biblical history, it helps if we don’t fall victim to what I suppose we call the...
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Pastor Hans Fiene
Sep 20, 20242 min read
Matins Devotion: September 20, 2024
1 Timothy 3 Yesterday I heard about a pastor in Dallas, a well-known figure in evangelical circles, who was removed from his congregation...
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Pastor Hans Fiene
Sep 20, 20242 min read
Matins Devotion: September 19, 2024
Nehemiah 2:11-20; 4:1-6 Why do Sanballat, Tobiah, and Geshem respond with mockery and cruelty when they learn that Nehemiah has returned...
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