BREAD OF LIFE READINGS FOR JULY 2025
TLH = The Lutheran Hymnal, 1941; WS = Worship Supplement 2000; LSB = Lutheran Service Book, 2006 Date Hymns Reading Comments July 1 TLH 341 / LSB 525 2 Samuel 20 In order to reclaim…
LUTHER’S MARRIAGE – JUNE 13, 1525
“With my wedding, I have made the angels laugh and the devils weep.” M. Luther For all his early life, Martin Luther knew that priests and nuns were not allowed to marry. After all, the…
BREAD OF LIFE READINGS, JUNE 2025
TLH = The Lutheran Hymnal, 1941; WS = Worship Supplement 2000; LSB = Lutheran Service Book, 2006 Date Hymns Reading Comment June 2 TLH 160 / LSB 442 Psalm 24 David calls the people of…
THE GIFT OF MOTHERS
Does the title of this article mean that mothers are the gift or that mothers are the ones from whom the gift comes? The answer is, “Both!” “And Adam called his wife’s name Eve, because…
BREAD OF LIFE READINGS, MAY 2025
TLH = The Lutheran Hymnal, 1941; WS = Worship Supplement 2000; LSB = Lutheran Service Book, 2006 Date Hymns Reading Comments May 1 LSB 417 Jeremiah 34 Jeremiah prophesies the destruction of Jerusalem and the…
DEATH AND RESURRECTION IN THE CHRISTIAN LIFE
A young lady studying to become an ELCA pastor once told me her personal calling was to fill people with a sense of resurrection living. “For too long,” she claimed, “we have lived under the…
BREAD OF LIFE READINGS, APRIL 2025
TLH = The Lutheran Hymnal, 1941; WS = Worship Supplement 2000; LSB = Lutheran Service Book, 2006 Date Hymns Reading Comments April 1 WS 723 / LSB 543 Exodus 32 While Moses is on the…
“T”
“And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to death—even death on a cross.” (Philippians 2:8 NIV84) Once the familiar T-shape of the cross was only a symbol of…
BREAD OF LIFE READINGS, MARCH 2025
TLH = The Lutheran Hymnal, 1941; WS = Worship Supplement 2000; LSB = Lutheran Service Book, 2006 Date Hymn Reading March 1 TLH 135 / LSB 414 Luke 9 Jesus sends the twelve apostles to…
OF SAINTS AND VALENTINES
“Saint Valentine” is not found in the Bible, nor is his “day.” Saint Valentine’s Day falls into the category of adiaphora—things neither commanded nor forbidden in Scripture. Let’s look at the big picture. Saints, according…