“They will say, ‘Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation.’ For they deliberately overlook this fact, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth was formed out of water and through water by the word of God, and that by means of these the world that then existed was deluged with water and perished (2 Peter 3:4-6).”  Read More

God is sorry he made man. That makes me wince when I read that. But imagine the Creator of the Heavens and the Earth, who at the beginning loved everything that He had made. How he delighted in it all. God had made a partnership with mankind to care and tend the creation, but that all seems lost now. Now the feeling of regret hangs over the Lord of all.   Read More

And the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus. - Matthew 1:30-31 It is with these words that the promise made in Genesis 3:15 finally begins to be fulfilled.  Read More

Our text for this day is a text that plays on the hope given in Genesis 3. The hope that through Eve, a descendant would come who would destroy the serpent and restore God’s creation.  Read More

Creation FallsGenesis 3Revelation 12:1-17Luke 1:26-38Psalm 104:1, 19-18LSB 346 When All the World Was CursedAttend Divine Service Wednesday at 9am or Thursday at 6:30pm and receive Holy Communion....  Read More

If God exists, why is there evil? This is a major objection to Christianity. God is either all powerful or good. He can’t be both, or so the objection goes. If He is all powerful, he could stop evil from happening. If He is good, he would want to. Since there is evil in the world, He either can’t stop it or doesn’t want to. This objection, however, ignores major themes in the Scriptures and misunderstands the character of God.  Read More

He did it! She did it! That wily snake did it! Really God, you did it! Adam goes from praising Eve as being “bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh” who also shares in the image of God, to then also treating her as a science experiment to see if she does die after eating the forbidden fruit. And then worse, Adam throws her under the bus.  Read More

What do stewardship, thanksgiving, and an Advent theme dealing with creation have to do with one another? For the answer, let us first turn to the explanation of the first article of the Apostle’s Creed, found in Luther’s Small Catechism. It says, to paraphrase: God created everything. He provides everything I need. For all this it is my duty to thank and praise, serve and obey Him.  Read More

In Genesis 2:5, we are told a line that perhaps would be easy to not take a second glance at. “When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground…”  Read More

Advent Midweek 3 - Thanksgiving and Stewardship  Read More

A lot more books are arriving at the church library! Thanks to donations from our ornament sale in July, I was able to purchase many new books from Concordia Publishing House’s fall warehouse sale (CPH is our Synod’s publisher).   Read More

What is a Christian to think about the climate change debate? As with the marriage debate, let us take a step back and look at what God has to say about it.  Read More