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Isaiah 40:28-31 {Prayer} Many of us have come to love the Christmas carol “O Holy Night.” First written in 1843 by a French poet, the lyrics were translated into English only a few years later by an American pastor. The carol’s initial popularity is often traced to its third stanza which is cherished by…
Genesis 12:2 {Prayer} Imagine that two of your friends are attending the Blues hockey game at the Enterprise Center in St. Louis. The game is being televised and you’re watching it at home. You know your friends are there and wonder if by chance you might spot them somewhere near the Blues bench…
Luke 17:11-19 {Prayer} There is another version of the Offertory, a song which is giving thanks to God, which is based of Psalm 116:17-19. Here’s what these verses say, “I will offer to you a sacrifice of thanksgiving and call on the name of the LORD. I will pay my vows to the LORD…
Colossians 1:13-19 You enter a sports stadium and all you see around you are banners and pictures of the team and its heroes. If you went to Busch Stadium especially during the last two months of the season, you saw people wearing jerseys and buying food with team emblems on them. Everything screams of the…
Luke 21:5-28 {Prayer} I’ve mentioned before how Jessica and I like to watch the TV show “Deadliest Catch.” We’ve even gotten into the break-offs of the show which follow some of the fisherman around to different parts of the world. There was even a series on the crab fishing which takes place off of…
Matthew 5:1-12 {Prayer} In 1995, the Benedictine community at Saint John’s Abbey in Minnesota was commissioned to develop the Saint John’s Bible. This bible is the first completely handwritten and hand illuminated manuscript since the invention of the printing press. If you open the bible you’re going to see all sorts of artist renderings…
Revelation 14:6-7 {Prayer} I want you to imagine a time with me. If you want or need to close your eyes to do so, then feel free, just don’t fall asleep on me. I want you to imagine that you are living in a time of economic hardship with a high unemployment rate. It’s…
Genesis 4:1-15 {Prayer} The birth of a child is something truly special, especially if it’s your first child. Sometime before Faith was born, my brother-in-law was trying to describe to me what it would be like when she was born. The thing is, he couldn’t really put it into words. There is really nothing…
Ezekiel 37:1-14 {Prayer} Each and every time you take a breath, your diaphragm is working. As you inhale, your diaphragm contracts and moves downward so that the space in your chest cavity increases. As the lungs expand, air is pulled in, and with the help of a fancy protein called a hemoglobin, oxygen goes into…
Ruth 1:1-22 {Prayer} Our Old Testament reading this morning is from the book of Ruth. When you hear that, you think the main subject of the book is who? Ruth. In our Lutheran Study Bible, in the introduction pages of the book under the title of “Blessings for Readers”, it says this: The Book…