Dear Readers and Listeners, Friends in Jesus Christ, Our watchword for this week is taken from the Gospel of Luke, Chapter Eighteen verse Thirty One, “We are going up to Jerusalem, and everything that is written by the prophets about the Son of Man will be fulfilled,” (New International Version). This week marks, on Wednesday,…

Dear Readers and Listeners, Friends in Jesus Christ The watchword for the New Year, the Year of Twenty Twenty Two, is taken from the Gospel of Saint John, Chapter Six verse Thirty Seven, “Jesus said: All that the Father gives me, will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away,”…

Dear Readers and Listeners, Friends in Jesus Christ, As we come to meditate on this last day of the year, reviewing the year’s challenges, joys and sorrows, we are invited to contemplate the Thirty First Psalm of David. He opens the psalm with an expression of faith, “In you, O Lord, do I put my…

Dear Readers and Listeners, Friends in Jesus Christ, We have celebrated the Feast of the Birth of our Lord Jesus Christ and are moving towards the end of this year. This has been a year filled with uncertainty as the world continued experiencing the pandemic. Even, in these anxiety-filled modern days, the words of scripture…

Dear Readers and Listeners, Friends in Jesus Christ, Our watchword for today is taken from Psalm Seventeen verse Seven, “Wondrously show your steadfast love, O Saviour of those who seek refuge from their adversaries at your right hand,” (NRSVB). In this prayer of the psalmist, King David, he calls on the Lord to save him…

Dear Readers and Listeners, Friends in Jesus Christ, Our watchword for today is taken from Psalm Ninety Four verse Nine, “He who planted the ear, does He not hear? He who formed the eye, does He not see?” (NRSVB). In this psalm the psalmist calls on the Lord and asks how long will God allow…

Dear Readers and Listeners, Friends in Jesus Christ, Our watchword for today is taken from Psalm Sixty Eight verse Twenty, “Our God is a God who saves; from the Sovereign Lord comes escape from death,” (NRSVB). In this praise psalm of King David he celebrated the return of the ark of covenant that was brought…

Dear Readers and Listeners, Friends in Jesus Christ, The last Wednesday of the Liturgical Year marks the Day of Supplication in the Lutheran Church Calendar. We come together on this day to ask God to forgive us our sins and to intercede for the world and her people, the church and her people and ourselves…