God in the Commonplace

If God does not enter your kitchen, there is something wrong with your kitchen. If you can't take God into your recreation, there is something wrong ...

God Turns Our Lives into Things of Beauty

Over a hundred years ago, in a Scottish seaside inn, a group of fishermen were relaxing after a long day at sea. As a serving maid was walking past the ...

God's Word Is Hot

When the hot word of God is poured over a cold, cold world, things break, and it is into that brokenness that we are called, into whatever big or small ...

Missing the Miracles

Too many times we miss so much because we live on the low level of the natural, the ordinary, the explainable. We leave no room for God to do the exceeding ...

Hardly Safe

[Since] last spring ... I look for tornadoes. ... One personal encounter with a power that before was only theoretical can make all the difference. You ...

God through Me

God's might to direct me, God's power to protect me, God's wisdom for learning, God's eye for discerning, God's ear for my hearing, ...

What, Me Worry?

Somebody said to me, "When I worry I go to the mirror and say to myself, 'This tremendous thing which is worrying me is beyond a solution. It ...

Communion Prayer

It is fitting and right to sing of you, to praise you, to thank you, to adore you in all places of your dominion. For you are the ineffable God, inconceivable, ...

Life Here and Now

Listening to a student read the Scripture in seminary chapel, Joseph Sittler, now blind, heard something he'd never heard before. "Yea, though ...

Luther on the Apostle's Creed

The First Article: Creation
"I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth".

What does this mean?

Answer: I believe that God ...