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Sermon Text: Matt 5:6, Rev 6:10, Rev 7:9, Lord’s Prayer, Apostles Creed, All Saints Day A Lutherans we are trained to think in terms of paradoxes in tension. Here is what I mean by that. The big tension paradox is law and gospel. The law kills, yet is necessary to show . . . → Read More: The Communion of Saints Tuesday was All Saints proper. We will celebrate it this Sunday. All Saints is the Christian feast day that originally inspired Halloween or All Hallows Eve. There are all kind of explanation stories about where this feast day came from. You can read some of them at the wikipedia page or is you want something more . . . → Read More: Hymns We Sing – All Saints Edition Full Text It is hard talking about this one. Because there is no real answer other than prayer, which I desperately beg of you to do. In that vein, this is Anselm of Canterbury which happened to be the prayer of the day in my prayerbook… Blessed Lord and Savior who has commanded us to love one another, . . . → Read More: Why Some not Others…  Comments are closed  Matthew, Sermons, Word  All Saints, beatitudes, evangelism, friends, grace, Matthew, mission, prayer, salvation Here is an interesting article from the WSJ on Halloween. This is one of those holidays that has blown up, or the marketing machine and a willing public has gone along. As a kid it was at best a couple of hours. I’m sure there were, but I don’t remember adults getting costumed and partying. . . . → Read More: Its Halloween Time Full Text Let me just say two things about this sermon: 1) I really hate it as a sermon. I think it misses the audience, doesn’t point to Christ enough, lacks a real solid textual foundation and doesn’t have the unity of message it should have. 2) I think some of the parts of it . . . → Read More: All Saints – Two Calendars telling a story |
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