The Importance of possessing a Guilty Conscience

13-The-Importance-of-possessing-a-guilty-  (TO READ IN BOOK FORMAT, OR TO PRINT THIS ARTICLE) Psalm 51:10-12:  “Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me!  Do not cast me away from your presence, and do not take your Holy Spirit from me!  Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold […]

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A Sermon in Memory of Paul Edward Kretzmann

14-A-Sermon-in-memory-of-P-E-Kretzmann (TO READ IN BOOK FORMAT, OR TO PRINT THIS ARTICLE) Psalm 112:6:  The righteous will be in everlasting remembrance. Following Scripture, a genuine Lutheran congregation will not give extraordinary exaltation to its departed members by eulogizing them at their funerals, for instance, or much worse, by praying to them for help, as in the Catholic […]

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A Fourth of July Sermon

15-A-4th-of-july-Sermon-  (TO READ IN BOOK FORMAT, OR TO PRINT THIS ARTICLE) Jeremiah 29:7:  Seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray to the Lord for it; for in its peace you will have peace! Until rather late in the history of the world, God kept […]

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The Lord defends a powerless Nation

16-The-Lord-defends-a-powerless-Nation-Jehosaphat   (TO READ IN BOOK FORMAT, OR TO PRINT THIS ARTICLE) 2nd Chronicles 19:4-20:32 The Lord defends a powerless Nation. About nine hundred years before the birth at Bethlehem of Jesus Christ, mankind’s Savior and God, there lived a king by the name of Jehoshaphat.  His capital was Jerusalem.  Spiritually, he was a believer in […]

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