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December 4: The Second Sunday of Advent

O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens. Out of the mouth of babies and infants, you have established strength because of your foes, to still the enemy and the avenger. –Psalm 8:1-2 We think we can conceive of God’s glory. At [...]

November 27: The First Sunday of Advent

Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord and against his Anointed, saying, “Let us burst their bonds apart and cast away their cords from us.” He who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord holds [...]

November 20: Christ the King Sunday

Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. –Psalm 1:1,2 This Psalm opens with a threefold prohibition [...]

November 13: The Twenty-Second Sunday after Pentecost

A couple of years ago, I started writing down a list of questions along the lines of “you might be a redneck if…” except on the issue of pietism. Most pietism is an enemy of the gospel. Click here for a really nice article on the subject. I can’t find the list I was making, [...]

November 6: The Twenty-First Sunday after Pentecost

Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock.And everyone who [...]