A blessed Easter again to you, dear Reader!
While preparing for my Easter sermons, I came across the devotion below in my files from my days at Martin Luther College. It was my final semester in college before our class would head off to seminary and Prof. Daniel Deutschlander was assigned only one morning chapel that [...]
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Libronix announced today the pre-publication of the R.C.H. Lenski Commentary on the New Testament. Currently the set is running at a pre-publication price of $199.95. (Really not a bad price since they’re planning on selling at $299, when it’s published!)
For years, Lenski’s NT commentary set was probably the most popular Lutheran exegetical commentary on the [...]
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When we were driving home from our Easter celebrations on Sunday afternoon, our little daughter could be heard singing at the top of her lungs, “Hosanna! Hosanna! Hosanna! Hosanna in the highest! Yay Jesus!” She was still singing long after we got home. She had heard us sing those “Hosannas” several times throughout the week, [...]
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Alleluia! Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! Alleluia!
I pray our risen Lord and Savior Jesus Christ richly blessed your Easter celebrations! Every year I marvel at the multi-sensory celebration that is the Feast of the Resurrection of Our Lord. Today was no different, as I’m sure it was in your own congregations. The morning [...]
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Posted in Devotional Thoughts, Hymns, Worship, tagged adoramus te, christ's passion, good friday, johannes-passion, lord let at last your angels come, o sacred head now wounded, st. john's passion, tenebrae on 21 March 2008 | 3 Comments »
+ Opening Chorus from J.S. Bach’s St. John Passion +
O Lord, Our Master, whose glory resounds in every land! Show us through your passion that you, the true Son of God, have been glorified throughout the ages even in your greatest humility. Amen.
(Translation from Booklet of 1997 Recording of St. John Passion)
(Performed by: Gächinger Kantorei [...]
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