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Penance

Christ's way into our hearts

December 23, 2007

“Christ’s way into our hearts has to be prepared through true repentance if He is to come to us in a spiritual manner and set up residence within us.” -Johann Gerhard

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Thanksgiving, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience

November 22, 2007

The Elders at Immanuel were very kind to give me the evening off from preaching tonight, and we were blessed to have Rev. Andrew Smith in the pulpit. In his sermon he referenced the 1863 Thanksgiving Proclamation by Abraham Lincoln and how he called not just for the giving of thanks but for a day [...]

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Reformation Sermon

October 29, 2007

Someone once summarized the entire Lutheran Reformation in the sixteenth century as a reformation of the Sacrament of Penance. Today, Reformation Sunday, we should ask ourselves, “Why are we Lutheran?” But along with that question, we should ask another: “Are we Lutheran?” If it is true that the entire Reformation can be seen as really [...]

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