Appreciating Our Lutheran Hymns

Great God, We Sing That Mighty Hand A Hymn for the New Year #119 in The Lutheran Hymnal Awareness of God’s help in the past enables us to enter a new year with confidence. From… 

The Gospel’s Effect In Our Lives The verb form (Greek) of the word Epiphany means to “show, make an appearance, reveal.” We already have had an epiphany of sorts at the New Year. What did… 

Would you look at all those zeroes! With my old car I’ve seen a row of zeroes a couple of times. It wasn’t too surprising the first time, but then it happened again! That was… 

At this time of year in the northern hemisphere, we learn to walk carefully. Ice may cover a step, sidewalk, or the street. The mere mention of ice conjures up a threat of falling, possibly… 

* A TRADITION TO RE-ESTABLISH? Last Christmas one of our pastors put out, via an e-mail message, the following word of encouragement to his brothers in the CLC ministry. The good words speak to us… 

“That We Might have Hope” (Rom. 15:4) First Samuel Chapters Seventeen To Twenty David and Jonathan: A Formula for Friendship This past summer I had the privilege of speaking at my parents’ 50th wedding anniversary.… 

Luke 14:25-35 Cost-Counting The scenario is all too familiar. A young person with no significant or permanent income source is bombarded with almost irresistible offers from the credit card companies. “Buy now, pay later” is… 

The Year of our Lord 2000 From the Editor: Thanks once again to Pastor Roland H. Gurgel (Faith, Nicollet and Faith, New Ulm, Minn.) for these daily Bible readings. For the year drawing to a… 

Now Are the Days Fulfilled A Christmas Hymn #99 in The Lutheran Hymnal The author of this month’s hymn is unknown, but the words of Scripture his hymn call to mind are familiar: “But when… 

“There is no hidden meaning to Christmas; no deeper meaning than what the Father has Himself put in it. . . . “ An Unencumbered Christmas What would Christmas be were it an unencumbered Christmas?…