“Lord I love the habitation of your house and the place where your glory dwells.”  Ps. 26:8 I am struck by the concept common among many Christians and clergy that Sunday morning is to be a time of revelry rather than reverence.  Certainly, there is a place for joy and gladness in the house of [...]

“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our tribulation, so that we may be able to comfort those who are troubled, wth the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.”  2 Cor. 1:3-4 The world [...]

Scotland has been on my thoughts lately.  Having lived there for a year, and visited last summer, it is a familiar place.  It is a magical place, where one steps from this high tech and busy world back into the medieval world of castles and kings and queens.  It is a “thin place”—where heaven and [...]

posted by Pastor “Are you better off now than at the beginning of this year?…. For Christians, however, there is a different way to look at things.  The year we have just lived was another year under the grace and care of our Savior, Who does all things well.  He worked in our lives for [...]

posted by Pastor “Should the Christian stand all day long at the grave of all joys which he enjoyed in past years?  Through Holy Baptism a great stream of joy has been conducted in his heart, which does not drain away, but streams forward with his life until its waves carry him into the sea [...]