This popular Easter hymn, #200 in The Lutheran Hymnal (1941), was written by Samuel Medley (1738–1799) and first appeared in George Whitefield’s Psalms and Hymns in the year 1775. Medley apparently spent the first twenty-some years of his life like …
◆ Mary Magdalene; Mary, the mother of James (“the less”) and of Joses; Salome, the wife of Zebedee; Joanna; and “other women” came to the sepulchre at the rising of the sun on Easter morning. (Matthew 28:1ff.; Mark 16:1ff.; Luke …
“But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first-fruits of them that slept.” — I Corinthians 15:20 The Holy Scriptures are an inexhaustible “gold mine” of truth. This statement is clearly supported by our Savior’s words to …
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“Thou wilt not leave My soul in hell; neither wilt Thou suffer Thine Holy One to see corruption.” —Psalm 16:10 “[David] seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that His soul was not left in hell, neither His …
“When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar,He said: ‘It is finished!’ And He bowed His head and gave up the ghost.” — John 19:30 “I suppose certainty [of salvation] is important to some people,” a lifelong E.L.C.A. Lutheran recently said …
On June 25th this past summer, our dear brother, the Rev. David G. Redlin of Tucson, Arizona, marked his fiftieth anniversary in the Lord’s service as a Lutheran pastor. Since he had come into our Conference in 1991 by colloquy …
“Ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord; walk as children of light.” —Ephesians 5:8 Before their conversion, all Christians were in spiritual darkness (I Peter 2:9b), spiritual blindness (I Corinthians 2:9a), and spiritual death (Ephesians …
“Behold, we go up to Jerusalem…” — Luke 18:31–34 On Ash Wednesday, February 22nd, we marked the beginning of another holy Lenten season —a period of six weeks during which we give special attention to the study of our Savior’s …
“Be sober, be vigilant, because your adversary, the devil, as a roaring lion walketh about, seeking whom he may devour, whom resist steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the …
The holy Epiphany season — this year having consisted of the Feast of the Epiphany of Our Lord (January 6th) and four Sundays after the Epiphany — is so named because of the manifestation or appearing of our Savior to …
