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...

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...

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...

Matthew 10:24-42 When Jesus tells us that He has come to set family members against each other, sons against fathers, daughters against...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

1 Timothy 3 Yesterday I heard about a pastor in Dallas, a well-known figure in evangelical circles, who was removed from his congregation...

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...

1 Timothy 1 We Lutherans like to use the term “mystery” quite a bit when discussing certain issues. How does Christ give us His body and...

2 Chronicles 36 If you took a time machine back to the chaotic days of our reading from Chronicles this morning, and if you tried to...

2 Chronicles 35:1–7, 16–25 King Josiah is the most faithful of the kings of Judah. His reforms are sweeping. His devotion to Yahweh is...