Grace Evangelical-Lutheran: November 2018

Wednesday, November 28, 2018

Isaiah 65,17-19.23-25. Eternity Sunday

✠ One Message: Christ crucified and risen for you ✠

The Word of the Lord Endures Forever

se cwide þæs béaggiefan ábireþ ferhþ

Isaiah 65,17-19.23-25 5618

Ewigkeitssonntag; 27. Trinitatis 073

Katharina, Virgin, Martyr 306

Isaac Watts, Father of English Hymnody. ✠ 1748

25. November 2018

1. O gracious Christ, we beseech You, You kill and make alive, You bring down to hell and raise up again, hear the cries of Your Church, so that Your heart is moved and You have mercy upon us as we await in tribulation Your second advent when You will restore creation to its purity. Amen. (Starck 183)

2. »„For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth, and the former things will not be remembered or come into mind. But be glad and rejoice forever in that which I create; for behold, I create Jerusalem to be a joy, and her people to be a gladness. I will rejoice in Jerusalem and be glad in My people; no more will be heard in it the sound of weeping and the cry of distress. They will not labor in vain or bear children for calamity, for they will be the offspring of the blessed of Yahweh, and their descendants with them. Before they call I will answer; while they are yet speaking I will hear. The wolf and the lamb will graze together; the lion will eat straw like the ox, and dust will be the serpent’s food. They will not hurt or destroy in all My holy mountain,“ says Yahweh.«

3. The Prophet Isaiah describes, quite simply, an utopia. He says God will create eternal joy and gladness, the wolf and lamb will eat together and pain and destruction will be absent in heaven. Sir Thomas More coined the Greek word utopia for his 1516 novel Utopia which describes a fictional island society in the Atlantic Ocean. In Book I, More lays out the problems of 16. century Europe and in Book II More describes how the inhabitants of Utopia have solved those problems. In a way this is the outline of the Bible. We begin in Genesis 1 and 2 with men and women living in blissful Paradise. Genesis 3 describes how Paradise was lost and from Genesis 3 to Revelation, the Holy Scriptures describe how this Paradise will be restored by Yahweh.

4. The polar opposite of utopia is dystopia, in which a community is characterized by dehumanization, totalitarian governments, environmental disaster or other characteristics associated with a cataclysmic decline in society. Since Adam’s fall into sin, we have been living in a dystopian world in some form or fashion. In the movie The Lord of the Rings, Galadriel narrates just such dystopia: „The world is changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, for none now live who remember it.“ The worst dystopian communities either self-destruct or are destroyed by the Lord.

5. Popular literary dystopias are found in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 and Susanne Collins’ The Hunger Games trilogy. The Bible also describes a number of extremely wicked dystopian communities on an already chaotic Earth: the world of Noah before the Great Flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, Nineveh and even Jerusalem.

6. Such dystopian literature has been popular throughout all human history. The Old Testament talks about the great serpent Leviathan who dwells in the sea. The Norse have a similar Midgard Serpent, Jörmungandr, who threatens all that is good and holy. India has the story of Indra slaying the serpent Vrtra. To bring about an utopia, the dystopia must be defeated and destroyed; the dragon must be defeated by the noble hero. Thus Yahweh crushes the head of Leviathan (Psalm 74,14), and will slay the twisting Serpent that is in the sea (Isaiah 27,1).

7. The Early Church used the image of Jesus as the bait to catch the Devil. „For the object of that mystery of the incarnation which we expounded just now was that the Divine nature of the Son of God, as though it were a hook concealed beneath the form and fashion of human flesh ... might lure on it the prince of this world to a conflict, to whom offering His flesh as a bait, His Divinity underneath might catch him and hold him fast with its hook, through the shedding of His immaculate blood“ (Rufinus Commentary on the Apostles’ Creed 15). „ … [I]t was not in the nature of the opposing power to come in contact with the undiluted presence of God, and to undergo His unclouded manifestation, therefore, in order to secure that the ransom in our behalf might be easily accepted by him who required it, the Deity was hidden under the veil of our nature, that so, as with ravenous fish, the hook of the Deity might be gulped down along with the bait of flesh, and thus, life being introduced into the house of death, and light shining in darkness, that which is diametrically opposed to light and life might vanish; for it is not in the nature of darkness to remain when light is present, or of death to exist when life is active“ (Gregory of Nyssa Great Catechism 24)

8. By catching and defeating the great Leviathan, the Devil, Jesus has removed the adversary of mankind and His creation. The next step in His Heilsgeschichte (salvation history) is to »create new heavens and a new earth where wolf and lamb will graze together.« This new heaven and earth will truly be an utopia. Isaiah describes it in terms familiar to human beings. Children will not suffer hunger, pain or other calamities. The hunter will mingle with its prey. Wolves and sheep will eat together peacefully. Lions will eat plants like the oxen. Isaiah describes a complete upheaval of this present world, an upheaval that will result in a re-created world that truly is the Paradise of Genesis 1 and 2. This eschatology finds its fulfillment in Christ Jesus’ death and resurrection. Heilseschatologie (salvation eschatology) is the future age of bliss when Paradise is restored, and this future age has been ushered in by Jesus. On the cross, Jesus told the insurrectionist crucified at His side: »Today you will be Me in Paradise« (Luke 23,43). The wise bridesmaids in today’s Gospel Reading had this promise of Paradise by faith, and each one of us also has that same promise of Paradise by faith solo Christo (through Christ alone). Amen.

9. Let us pray. O Christ,You make known the path of life; send us Your Spirit so that we may be in Your presence with the fullness of joy and receive from Your right hand both earthly and heavenly pleasures. Amen.

To God alone be the Glory

Gode ealdore sy se cyneþrymm

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All Scriptural quotations are translations done by The Rev. Peter A. Bauernfeind using the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, 4. Edition © 1990 by the Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Stuttgart, and the Novum Testamentum Graece, Nestle-Aland 28. Revised Edition © 2012 by Deutsch Bibelgesellschaft, Stuttgart.

Thursday, November 22, 2018

Revelation 2,8-11. 2. Last Sunday in Church Year

✠ One Message: Christ crucified and risen for you ✠

The Word of the Lord Endures Forever

Verbum Domini Manet in Aeternum

Revelation 2,8-11 5518

Vorletzter. Sn. n. Kirchenjahres (26. Trinitatis) 071

Gregory Thaumaturgus (the Wonder-worker), Bishop of Pontus. ✠ 270

18. November 2018

1. О Jesus, Thou Beloved Son of Your Father, for the sake of Your holy wounds keep us in Your love, so that we remain faithful to You in this temporal life. Amen. (Starck 318)

2. »Jesus said to the Apostle John: „And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: ‘The words of the First and the Last, who was dead and came back to life: I have known your tribulation and your poverty, but you are rich, and the blasphemy of those saying that they are Jews and are not but are a synagogue of Satan. Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into jail, in order to tempt you and you will have tribulation for ten days. Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one conquering will never ever be hurt by the second death.’“«

3. The glorified and ascended Christ Jesus gave the last-living apostle, the beloved John, His apocalypse for the comfort of the Church. During the era of the apostles, the Church experienced varying degrees of trials, persecution and tribulation. Stephen the Deacon was the first martyr (ad 35) in the apostolic era; he was the first of those Christians who would die on account of the blessed name of Jesus Christ. For 300 years, first the Jews and then the Romans spilled Christian blood in the hopes of stemming the inexorable victorious march of the Christian faith.

4. The Christians in the 21. century still experience varying degrees of persecution and tribulation. Palestinian Christians, who trace their ancestry back to the 1. century Church, face struggles at the hands of occupying Israeli forces. African Christians face slavery or death at the hands of their non-Christian neighbors. Christians throughout Asia and the Middle East also endure trails and persecution for their faith. Our Lord Jesus Christ knows His Church’s tribulation and her poverty.

5. Christians in the United States do not know what true persecution is. Our trials are petty compared to what others face around the world. But when a Christian or a church suffers in Iran or China, we share in their suffering for they are brothers and sisters in the faith. We are one body in Christ. Like the Christian witnesses in Revelation 6, we pray: »O Sovereign Lord, Holy and True, how long before You judge and avenge the blood of those who dwell on the earth?« (Revelation 6,10).

6. Perhaps we will feel the sharp sting of persecution in this nation. When trials fall upon us, we must recall the exhortation recorded by the beloved John the Apostle: »You will have tribulation. Be faithful unto death and I will give you the crown of life.« The one who speaks this is Jesus who is the Alpha and the Omega (Α και Ω), the First and the Last, the one who died and is now alive. In John’s day, the στεφανος (wreath/garland) was awarded to the victor in Greco-Roman athletic competitions much like we reward a gold medal in the Olympics. So what is the crown of life that Jesus promises to His people? A: Jesus promises eternal life to all Christians, and this physical and spiritual life is derived and sustained by Christ. So Jesus likens our life as an athletic competition, and in this competition we suffer injury and loss but nevertheless we are crowned the victor for having endured until the end with faith.

7. Those who have the crown of life will never experience the 2. death. The imagery here is as follows: the 1. life is our life on this earth; the 2. life is eternal life with God; the 1. death is our physical death; the 2. death is eternal separation from God. The crown of life given to us by Jesus assures each Christian: you live on this earth, one day you will die, but you will live again forever. The 2. death with its eternal separation from God will never harm the Christian. Suffering and persecution are not the final words in this fallen world. We do not cease to exist when we die, Jesus did indeed die but He rose from the grave. He is the first fruits of the glorious resurrected body. Christ’s victory is our victory. His resurrection is our resurrection. Death has no dominion over Him, and therefore death has no dominion over us. Trust in Christ, for He is our Eternal Life. Look unto Christ, for He gives us the crown of everlasting life, which is the crown of His righteousness (2. Timothy 4,8). Amen.

8. Let us pray. O Lord Jesus Christ, our Righteousness Judge; give us the certainty of salvation, so that in this life we are assured of our forgiveness and in the life to come will join all of creation in renewed glory. Amen.

To God alone be the Glory

Soli Deo Gloria

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All quotations from the Book of Concord are translations done by The Rev. Peter A. Bauernfeind using Die Bekenntnisschriften der evangelisch-lutherischen Kirche, 12. Edition © 1998 by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.

Saturday, November 17, 2018

Job 14,1-6. 3. Last Sunday in the Church Year

✠ One Message: Christ crucified and risen for you ✠

The Word of the Lord Endures Forever

se cwide þæs béaggiefan ábireþ ferhþ

Job 14,1-6 5418

Drittletzter Sn. n. Kirchenjahres; 25. Trinitatis 070

Martin, Bishop of Tours, † 400.

✠ Armistice, Remembrance, & Veterans Day for Christian soldiers who have served the State. ✠

11. November 2018

1. О God, the Great Physician, teach us to trust not in our earthly possessions but to seek the riches of heaven, so that we rest secure that we are found in Your grace and promised eternal fellowship with You. Amen. (Starck 228-29).

2. »Man who is born of a woman is few of days and full of trouble. He comes out like a flower and withers; he flees like a shadow and continues not. And do You open Your eyes on such a one and bring me into judgment with You? Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? There is not one. Since his days are determined, and the number of his months is with You, and You have appointed his limits so that he cannot pass, look away from him and leave him alone, so that he may enjoy, like a hired hand, his day.«

3. Job tells us the brutal reality of living in a fallen world: a person’s life is few of days and full of trouble. He laments that all people seem to fall under the wrath of the Lord’s judgment. We are sinners and unclean; who can bring a clean thing from that which is unclean? We are unable to redeem or justify ourselves before the wrath and judgment of the Lord.

4. Jesus spoke about the day of the Lord’s wrath and judgment in our Gospel periscope. He used the historical example of Antiochus Epiphanes IV who in 168 bc entered Jerusalem and offered up a desolating sacrifice on the altar of burnt offering (1. Maccabees 1,54). Antiochus had also placed a statue of Zeus in the most holy place of the temple, thereby turning the Lord’s temple into a temple of idolatry. Jesus explained to His apostles that just as Antiochus desecrated the temple, when the apostles see another abomination which causes desolation standing in the temple they should flee from the area. Jesus’ warning came to pass a few decades later when in ad 70 General Titus lead his legions into Jerusalem, crushed the Jewish rebellion against Emperor Vespatian, planted the Imperial eagle standard on holy ground and destroyed the city and the temple.

5. We live in a world ruled by the 2. Law of Thermodynamics: Energy spontaneously tends to flow only from being concentrated in one place to becoming diffused or dispersed and spread out. This is called entropy. This law is shown in the following example: A hot frying pan cools down when it is taken off the kitchen stove. Its thermal energy, which is „heat“, flows out to the cooler room air. The opposite never happens. British scientist and author C.P. Snow has an excellent way of remembering this law: „You cannot break even. You cannot return to the same energy state, because there is always an increase in disorder; entropy always increases.“ We find such entropy in Job 14 and Matthew 24. Mankind’s entropy began in the Garden of Eden. The Lord’s law promises disorder to Adam and Eve: if you eat from the forbidden tree, then you will die. Sinners die; nature trembles with natural disasters; creation breaks down. The 2. Law of Thermodynamics is the result of this fallen world on account of man’s sin and the Lord’s curse upon that sin. Yes, our end result is disorder, entropy and death. Or as Job poetically said: »Man born of woman is few of days and full of trouble. He arrives as a flower and withers; he flees like a shadow and continues not.«

6. Just as a flower cannot cease to wither nor a shadow prevail against the sunlight, we cannot solve our dilemma of sin. But Job does not end with his lament; a few verses later he declares: »O Lord, You do not keep watch over my sin; my transgression is sealed up in a bag, and You cover over my iniquity« (Job 14,16-17). The Church confesses and preaches that Christ has acquired salvation for us. Job confesses this a few chapters later: »I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last He will stand upon the earth. After my skin has been thus destroyed, yet in my flesh I shall see God« (Job 19,25-26).

7. God the Father has not rejected us nor has He forgotten us. He knows our sinfulness, and He sent His Only-begotten Son to merit our forgiveness. The Apostle John proclaims it this way in his Gospel: »For God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but He sent the Son so that the world may be saved through Him« (John 3,17). The holy apostle proclaims the doctrine of justification!

8. Jesus did not come to judge us but to justify us. Jesus can bring a clean thing out of an unclean. Only Jesus is righteous, and He gives us His very righteousness to be our own. »The righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it, but the righteousness of God is manifested through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no difference, because all sinned and fall short of the glory of God and all are justified as a free gift by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus whom God put forward as a propitiation through faith in His blood which shows His righteousness by passing over former sins. In the forbearance of God, to show His righteousness at the present time, to be just and the one who justifies by means of faith in Jesus« (Romans 3,21-26).

9. This pure gospel soothes consciences burdened by tribulation, sin or death. The gospel, brings us blessed assurance (seligste Versicherung): Fear not, dear Christians, fear not, for we are saved by Christ alone (solus Christus) and no one and nothing can snatch us out of Christ’s redeeming hands: not our sins, not the tribulations of the world and not even the Devil himself. We are free; we are forgiven; we belong to Jesus. Christ’s vicarious and substitutionary death solves our real, deadly problem: (which is our) sin. There is now full and complete peace between God the Father and us. We are righteous and justified on account of Christ’s merits which have now been credited to us. This is the doctrine of justification that Christ Jesus established for us and our salvation. Revel and rejoice in what Jesus has done for us. Amen.

10. Let us pray. We give thanks to You, O Lord Jesus Christ, we give thanks, for Your Name is near, and where Your Name is, there is salvation so that we are assured of our right standing before God the Father. Amen.

To God alone be the Glory

Gode ealdore sy se cyneþrymm

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Monday, November 5, 2018

Romans 13,1-7. 23. Trinity

✠ One Message: Christ crucified and risen for you ✠

The Word of the Lord Endures Forever

Verbum Domini Manet in Aeternum

Romans 13,1-7 5318

23. Sonntag nach Trinitatis 068

Vitalis and Agricola, Martyrs at Bologna, Italy 304.

Robert Preus, Pastor, Theologian, and Seminary President. ✠ 1995.

4. November 2018

1. О Gracious, and Merciful God, Thou establishes temporal governments for our blessing, help us to obey our political leaders and grant us the wise words to call them to account for any misdeed or misrule, so that they remain just rulers and further establish peace and order for our nation. Amen. (Starck 174)

2. »Let every person be under the authority of the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, for he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God’s wrath on the wrongdoer. Therefore one must be under his authority, not only to avoid God’s wrath but also for the sake of conscience. For because of this you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, attending to this very thing. Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed.«

3. Saint Paul’s apostolic exhortation to the Roman Christians fits well in our current political setting as we are a couple of days away from Election Day 2018. The political landscape in Paul’s day in the middle of the 1. century ad was different from ours in early 21. century North America. Rome started out as a republic in 509 bc where citizens elected representatives to rule on their behalf; this is different from Greek democracy in which every citizen was expected to play an active role in governing. The Roman Senate was comprised of aristocratic patricians who elected the two consuls as leaders of the republic. Lower class plebeians had very little say in the government. The 100-seat, later 300- and 600-seat, Senate was the most powerful political body in the republic. The Senate created the Roman Empire in 27 bc when it by granted Octavian the title of Augustus and named him the Roman leader in succession of his father Julius Caesar, soon thereafter the Senate became weakened as strong willed emperors often coerced the senators; thus the Roman government in Paul’s day was a strong emperor with a weaker Senate. So for Paul, the governing authority would be the Roman emperor, the local Roman governor and the local ruling body of the town or city. Paul exhorted Christians to be subject to these authorities, for their authority to rule is from God who as God’s servants are to protect the good citizens and punish those who break the laws. Paul says we must be under the authority of our rulers to avoid God’s wrath and also for the sake of conscience.

4. The political landscape we find ourselves in is much improved over what Paul had and knew. Our American republic was built in part on the ideals of the old Roman Republic and our Constitution separates the government into three branches: legislative, with the House and Senate, an executive and judicial; each branch has some power and authority that is not granted to the other 2 so as to create a check and balance should one or more branches seek to accumulate more power for themselves. So Paul’s exhortation in Romans 13 is much more complex in our situation because we are under the authority of many more politicians. We also have a great responsibility as we elect several different leaders who represent us at different levels: local, State and federal; so our vote is an important act of citizenship, plus we have specific referenda to vote on and our vote carries more decision making weight.

5. Paul concludes and says: pay taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed and honor to whom honor is owed. Elsewhere, Paul exhorts us that »supplications, prayers, intercessions and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, so that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way. This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all people to be saved and to arrive at the knowledge of the truth« (1. Timothy 2,1-4). This is very sound apostolic and Christian advice particularly because American politics are often a messy, raw business that brings out the worst in both politicians and citizens. Paul exhorts us to remember that we are Christians 1. and citizens 2.; we are to love and respect each other especially when we disagree over political issues.

6. Furthermore the Holy Gospels refused to portray Jesus as a political liberator of the downtrodden; rather the Evangelists tell us that Jesus upheld the legality of the Roman Empire and its governing of Judea and Palestine: Jesus paid His taxes to Caesar and He encourages us to pay our taxes as well.

7. All well and good if the government is truly being a servant of God’s goodness. What if the government gets off-track and becomes an agent of evil towards its citizens? When the government is in clear contrast to God’s will, then we are exhorted to obey God rather than man (Acts 5,29). This also is sound apostolic exhortation, but it is difficult or challenging to perform when the government threatens bodily harm or death if you remain opposed to their ungodly degrees. We do well to remember the Apostle Paul’s counsel: »Our citizenship is in heaven, and from heaven we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like His glorious body (Phillipians 3,20-21). The government may not coerce a person in regards to religious beliefs. The government may not unjustly persecute citizens because they oppose something on religious, moral, conscientious or political grounds. On account of the estate of the government that is established by God for good order and for the sake of our neighbor, Christians must object when the government goes beyond its authority and mistreats good citizens as if they are wicked gadflies.

8. God exhorts us in His Word to pray for our government, pray for our leaders, help our neighbor and support those who are oppressed. Be respectful, be kind, exercise your duties as a citizen to change immoral or tyrannical government objectives. St. Paul tells us: »Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law« (Romans 13,8).

9. Our American republic grants us numerous opportunities to be a good Christian citizen. Our Constitution, in the Bill of Rights (1791), guarantees us the right to freely exercise our religion, the freedom of speech, the right to peaceably assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances (I. Amendment). As informed voters we elect and hold accountable our local leaders, representatives and senators. We pray for our leaders and our nation. In all this we act as Christians under God’s authority and under our government’s. Amen.

10. Let us pray. O Lord, whose works deserve thanks; guide us to bless You and speak of Your Glory, so that those who hear us may be granted faith in Jesus for life everlasting. Amen.

To God alone be the Glory

Soli Deo Gloria

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Thursday, November 1, 2018

All Saints’ Day

Thursday 1. November 2018

22. Trinity, All Saints' Day

Jesus said: »It is written: My house shall be called a house of prayer, but you make it a den of insurrectionists!« (Matthew 21,13)

Jesus spoke these words shortly after His triumphal entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday. He refers to the Prophets Isaiah and Jeremiah (Isaiah 56,7; Jeremiah 7,11). The temple and its courtyard were dedicated to sacrifices, prayer, worship and teaching. But the tables set up in the courtyard to change money and sell pigeons had encroached upon the limited space where people gathered to pray and hear the rabbis teach. The temple had been corrupted, and Jesus reformed it.

Luther did the same in his day. The Church had been corrupted with penances, indulgences and other works righteousness that encroached upon the pure gospel. Luther overturned those merits of works righteousness and put the focus back on Christ, His merits and the gospel of grace and faith.

Jesus makes one a saint. You don't need a papal proclamation and proof of two miracles. You only need Jesus and the declared righteousness that He freely and mercifully gives you in the waters of Holy Baptism. Faith receives this righteousness as one's own, and thus, forgiven and redeemed, you are a saint in the eyes of God the Father. As saint's we pray and worship the Triune God. We petition God to intervene in the chaos and corruption found in this world. We pray for peace and the proclamation of the pure gospel.

For all the saints who from their labors rest,

Who Thee by faith before the world confessed,

Thy Name, O Jesus, be forever blest.

Alleluia! Alleluia!

Thou wast their Rock, their Fortress and their Might;
Thou, Lord, their Captain in the well-fought fight;
Thou, in the darkness drear, their one true Light.
Alleluia! Alleluia! (LSB 677,1-2)

Prayer: O Almighty and Everlasting God, You knit together Your faithful people of all times and places into one holy communion, the mystical body of Your Son, Jesus Christ. Grant us so to follow Your blessed saints in all virtuous and Godly living so that, together with them, we may come to the unspeakable joys You have prepared for those who love You; through Jesus Christ, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, One God, now and forever. Amen. (F34, Treasury of Daily Prayer)

Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church

Wednesday, November 28, 2018

Isaiah 65,17-19.23-25. Eternity Sunday

Thursday, November 22, 2018

Revelation 2,8-11. 2. Last Sunday in Church Year

Saturday, November 17, 2018

Job 14,1-6. 3. Last Sunday in the Church Year

Monday, November 5, 2018

Romans 13,1-7. 23. Trinity

Thursday, November 1, 2018

All Saints’ Day