God makes us pure saints by planting us back in the earth we imagined we needed to escape.
Salvation is not merely to be put in “safety” but to be put into Christ.
Bringing your family to church to receive “the one thing needful” (Luke 10:42) in Word and Sacrament honors and pleases God.

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This is an excerpt from “A Lutheran Toolkit” written by Ken Sundet Jones (1517 Publishing, 2021), pgs. 23-25.
From the womb to the tomb, from the cradle to the grave, Jesus’ name defines and describes who he is and what he is all about.
As a parent listens for the cry of a hurting child, our heavenly Father waits for our cry of weal and woe.
Sometimes we make the mistake of thinking God's love is like the love we experience in human relationships. But human love is a derivative of God's love. It is lesser.
For God to shine his face upon us is the same as saying, “Christ Jesus is with us.”
Has the modern world taken too strong a dose of the gospel as its inheritance from the Reformation?
The church does well to remind the world that God is unmasked, indeed, that God has unmasked himself in the person of Jesus.
Fred Rogers did not teach children how to live through a pandemic, but he had many profound things to say about loving our neighbors and finding our identity in that calling.
God's Word is the final word on you, and his claim on you as his people, his children, is the ultimate claim.
I hope this Christmastime affords ample opportunities for you to publish the Good News of Jesus Christ.
On this day in the year 1093, Anselm was consecrated as the archbishop of Canterbury.
Freedom is the opposite of woe-dom. We must remind ourselves and teach our children that God's voice is the voice that matters.