The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. “Lift up your hearts.” “We lift them to the Lord.” These familiar eucharistic sentences remind us that it is not our own self-assessment that regulates whether our hearts could be lifted up to the Lord. Our heart condition is part of why the Lord comes to us in His Holy Word and His Holy Meal, why He came as a child two millennia ago, and why He promises to return in glo

Lent 5 April 9, 2025 The hymn from which our Lenten theme, “What Kind of Love is This?” is...

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Lent 3                                         March 26, 2025 The question we are focusing on this Lenten season has been on What Kind of...

Second Wednesday in Lent March 19, 2025 It was Christ’s love for you that brought Him to Golgotha, where He bled...

First Wednesday in Lent March 12, 2025 Can we even call it love, given the comparatively poor emotion we’ve ascribed to the word? Human...

The meaning of a question depends on what you are looking at: “What kind of love is this?!” If you are looking at the headlines, you...

This is the day! For unto you is born this day in the city of David, a Savior, who is Christ the Lord” (Luke 2:11ESV).   In ancient times...

Come, then, O Lord Jesus,   From our sins release us. Keep our hearts believing,   That we, grace receiving, Ever may confess You   Till...