This Week Can a Lutheran have a spiritual experience? We don’t normally talk like that. Can we? The record of God’s dealings with mankind, the Bible, includes dreams from the first book of the Bible to the last. We’ll encounter dreams throughout our study of the Book of Daniel; we come to the first one in chapter…

This Week A tastier banquet Read the Bible and you’ll encounter dozens of banquets—not the hot dish potluck kind, but the real deal. In some places, the Bible even describes heaven as a banquet. Isaiah wrote, “Lord Almighty will prepare a feast of rich food for all peoples, a banquet of aged wine—the best of…

This Week Daniel—how to live a godly life in an ungodly culture The book of Daniel in the Old Testament was written over 2,500 years ago about events that took place on the opposite side of the world. Yet, the book is about us. It teaches us how God is in control over all things, how…

This Week Happy Epiphany You won’t find Epiphany greeting cards, and you won’t receive Epiphany gifts. We won’t blow noisemakers and raise a glass to toast the celebration. Epiphany comes and goes rather silently. But we who find value in a “church year,” annual reminders of key events of Christ’s life for us, treasure the…

This Week Another year of God’s grace to a sinful world has passed; 365 days of forbearance, an untold number of transgressions forgiven . . . every day. Who can count the stars in the sky, the sand on the seashore, or reckon the crimes of a lifetime? Wisdom can. Psalm 90 is a wisdom…

This Week When a friend describes someone as, “a straight-shooter,” or says, “you know where you stand with her,” you know your friend means you can trust that person. Christmas is God’s message to you, “You can trust me.” He took a long time to keep his promise to send the Savior, but he did.…

This Week A unique birth announcement New parents have throughout history heralded the birth of a child in different ways: a town crier, community bulletin board, local paper, U.S. mail, and more recently Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or Snapchat. But read Luke 2:8-20 and discover a unique kind of birth announcement. Highlights Events and ministry news…

This Week A baby’s kick Pregnant women know what it’s like to have a baby in the womb give a good kick. Two thousand years ago, a woman named Elizabeth was miraculously pregnant with John the Baptist. Her relative Mary was in the same condition, only with an even more miraculous baby: the Son of God.…

This Week O Come, All You . . . Unfaithful Have you noticed more lights on these days? We light candles and put up lights as a reminder: Jesus is the light of the world. The world is filled with people in darkness, people who don’t know God, and people who do know him but…

This Week Come All You Unfaithful An interviewer asked a British philosopher, “What’s wrong with the world?” He replied, “I am.” He got it right. It’s been that way since the fall. But Jesus came to the fallen and made us right. And when he returns, he’ll make the broken world whole again. Join other…