What Christmas is N-O-T: It is not presents, decorations, Santa Claus, snow men or any kind of fairytale. What Christmas IS: God the Holy Spirit came upon a poor virgin named Mary and conceived in her the Son of God. This happened! God the Son became man to save us all from our sin. His name is Jesus!…

For Christians who understand the meaning of the word “advent” it is a dear word. It means “coming,” and the coming of which it speaks is the coming of God’s Son, conceived by the Holy Spirit in the Virgin Mary, and born from her. He is The Savior King Jesus Christ who has come into…

Jesus spent the final days of his earthly ministry teaching his disciples about the Judgment Day. He considered it important for them to know. From the pages of Scripture, he continues to teach us about the Judgment so that we, too, can learn to recognize the signs, and prepare for its coming through repentance and faith.

We don’t enjoy being laid low, but that is just what the Lord does: he lays us low so that we confess our sins for what they are: rejection of his Person, Word, and Will. But this is not the end. He lays us low so that he can lift us up again in Jesus,…

We don’t normally put suffering and glory in the same sentence. But Jesus put the two together in the same sentence. He suffered for us and our sins at the cross in order to bring us into glory through his resurrection. As we Christians undergo suffering as we witness for Jesus, we don’t lose hope, for glory…

In life, we attach our signature to many documents, making promises to follow through on the prescribed terms. But Christianity is not about this. If we were sign the contract with God, promising to follow through, we will and do break the contract. We sin. Sin results in judgment. Christianity is about a promise, God’s promise to…

We can all admit it. We build walls inside our hearts as a form of protection. We do this against God, so that he will not expose us. This is the wall of unbelief. Yet Jesus, God’s Son, came to knock down the wall. He did so by exposing himself to judgment in our place at the cross.…

In the Gospels, we hear Jesus saying many suprising or unexpected things. In the lession from Luke 16:1-9 he does it again. He says that we should use our worldly wealth in such a way that we build friendships with it, and went it is spent, we shall be welcomed into eternal dwellings. He, of course,…

Martin Luther once wrote, “A Christian is a free lord, subject to none. A Christian is a slave, subject to all.” This is true because Jesus, the Lord, freely sacrificed himself for the world at the cross to free the world from sin. All who believe in the cross, have been freed from sin and hell, and are…

We live in a world which says to us, “Ah, that’s good enough.” Most things in life do not demand perfection. But God does demand it. “Be perfect as I am perfect!” But we are the opposite of perfect; we are sinful. How shall we be saved? Through faith alone in Jesus, who was perfect…