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These Are the Ones Who Follow the Lamb
These Are the Ones Who Follow the Lamb

Out of Egypt the God and Father of our dear Lord Jesus Christ calls you to be His own dear child. He calls you through the waters of Holy Baptism into the Resurrection and the Life everlasting. He opens your mouth to show forth His praise in both life and death, by placing on your tongue and on your lips the “new song” of the Cross. So are you called to follow the Lamb wherever He goes, and so do you follow Him through suffering and death into the Promised Land of heaven.

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Saints, SermonRick Stuckwischsermon, Feasts & Festivals, The Holy InnocentsComment
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas, dear readers, brothers and sisters in Christ! At last, this festival day has once more come, and we reflect upon the mystery of the Incarnation of our Lord, and we connect His manger with His cross, and we celebrate Christ’s Mass as He continues to come to us in His Word and Sacrament: the Gottesdienst.

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Larry Beane Comment
Technical Difficulties
Technical Difficulties

The image above is taken from our 11:00am Divine Service this past Sunday - the second try for our livestream of the day. At the 9:30am Divine Service, the one we usually stream on Sunday mornings, we had “technical difficulties”.

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Ben Ball Comment
Fear Gives Way to Peace at the Voice of the Lord
Fear Gives Way to Peace at the Voice of the Lord

Whatever it is in you that would oppose or prevent the coming of the Christ, the preaching of the Forerunner removes. Where you are arrogant and exalt yourself, he humbles you. Where you are doubtful and afraid, he silences your unbelief and quiets your fears, that he might speak the tender mercies of God to your troubled heart. For the Lord is at hand to visit and redeem His people, and this Word of salvation comes to all who fear God — not in terror, but in the reverence of faith.

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Rick Stuckwisch Comment
The Church Must Gather and Faithful Stewards Must Preach Against the World
The Church Must Gather and Faithful Stewards Must Preach Against the World

Some may think the Church doesn’t need to bother condemning sin and false teaching in the world. We should just focus on the sins we have right inside the Church. It’s true that judgment must BEGIN at the house of God (1 Peter 4:17), but that does not mean we turn a blind eye on the world or cease to warn our people to avoid the false teaching that surrounds them. An occasion presented itself for me to do so this past Sunday.

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Anthony DodgersComment
Annual Lay-Led Eucharist?
Annual Lay-Led Eucharist?

In a comment to an earlier post, a Gottesblog reader asks:

The Eucharist was established as part of an annual observance over which the head of the household presided, and in which children took part. About 130 years later it had become a observance over which only an ordained minister was allowed to preside, one which was observed weekly and even more frequently, and from which children, at least in the West, were banned. Could anyone point me to a book which documents how these changes came about?

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Larry Beane Comments
Living with Santa Lucia in the Light of Christ Jesus
Living with Santa Lucia in the Light of Christ Jesus

Whether or not you are joined to a husband or wife here on earth, you have been joined to Christ in the waters of your Holy Baptism, and you are knit together with Him as one flesh in the Holy Communion of His Body and His Blood. Thus are your body and life redeemed and sanctified in His Body. You live and die with Him who is your Savior and your Head. And you confess Him with all of your words and actions as you go about your days and fulfill your duties here on earth.

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Celibacy, Saints, SermonRick StuckwischSermon, saints, Lucia Comment