1 Timothy 6:11-16 When St. Paul tells St. Timothy to pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, and gentleness, this is...

Acts 4:8-13 At first, Peter doesn’t fully get it. He knows that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the Living God. He knows Jesus is God in...

Ezekiel 39:1-10, 17-29 Ezekiel is a prophet in exile. During the first wave of Nebuchadnezzar’s attack on Jerusalem, Ezekiel was one of...

Romans 3:1-18 Imagine you have a deadly disease and you need to have surgery. And as you’re in the waiting room, you look around and you...

Romans 2:17-29 About 1900 years before the birth of Christ, God gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision. But in the years to come,...

Romans 2:1-16 If you take our reading from Romans 2 out of context, it can be a little troubling to us Lutherans, especially verses 6-8...

Romans 1:18-32 It’s a dangerous thing when God gives you what you want. Because, on account of your sinful nature, what you want is the...

Luke 3:1-20 When the crowds hearing John the Baptist’s message come to repentance and ask him how they should now live, I imagine they...

Luke 2:41-52 Throughout Christ’s youth, Mary received a number of reminders that her Son didn’t really belong to her. He was her child,...

Luke 2:21-40 Our reading from Luke today is always the Gospel reading for the First Sunday after Christmas, which I think means I’ve...

Luke 2:1-20 If you were in Bible Class on Sunday, you heard me say how I don’t like at all like the translation “swaddling cloths.”...

John 20:24-29 Sometimes unbelief is not so much a rejection of what happened but the fear of what comes next. It’s not so much that...

Revelation 8 We are now well into what I call the meat and potatoes of the Book of Revelation. And to understand what’s going on here in...

Revelation 7 The Christian faith is a deeply ironic one. It’s a series of glorious non-contradictory contradictions and beautiful...

Isaiah 34:1-35:10 In war, victory is far more political than personal. At least if you fight a war that rages on your own soil, there’s...

Psalm 89; Revelation 1 The psalm we sang responsively this morning was just one small section of Psalm 89. Psalm 89 is a very...

Jude All sin is essentially a theatrical reproduction of Satan’s rebellion against God. Satan and his angels would not live under...

1 John 5 Once the world was your enemy, snarling at you, growling against you, threatening to do the bidding of its master the devil and...

1 John 2:15-29 There’s something rather comedic about the devil’s final temptation of Christ. When Satan offers our Lord all the kingdoms...

1 John 1:1-2:14 One thing I love so much about the Christian faith is that it’s both gloriously complicated and gloriously simple. You...