1 Peter 5 Very often, when Christians face hardships or problems, we’ll utter phrases like, “it’s ok, God’s got this.” We’ll say those...

Isaiah 8:9-9:7 Early in my ministry, I often said that the season of Advent is not pre-Christmas, the idea being that the point of the...

Isaiah 1:1-28 I’ve often said that the love story of the Bible wouldn’t make a particularly good romantic movie. God’s love for His...

Revelation 22 Come to the River of Life. Here, in these waters, come meet your Father. Meet the One who loved you from the foundation of...

Revelation 21:9-27 Julian the Apostate is a name given to a certain Roman emperor, the nephew of Constantine the Great, who turned from...

Daniel 2:24–49 In a way, Nebuchadnezzar’s request of his dream-interpreters is a bit like if you went to a chiropractor and told him,...

Matthew 28 There’s a common misconception that Jesus exited the tomb on Easter Sunday by walking out after the stone was rolled away. I...

Matthew 27:57-66 When the chief priests ask Pilate to secure the tomb of Jesus, I have a sneaking suspicion they’re not really worried...

Matthew 27:33-56 As our Lord hangs upon the cross, the crowd knows exactly what would convince them that Jesus really is the Christ, that...

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...

MONDAY Matthew 22:23-46 As we see throughout the Gospels and certainly in our reading from Matthew this morning, the Pharisees are always...

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...

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,...