Category: Grow In Grace Notes Devotions

There is no truth of Scripture so wonderful that my sinful nature cannot distort it into a caricature of itself for my sinful nature’s own purposes! Consider how that works with the theology of the ...

Scottsdale, Arizona.  Watertown, South Dakota.  Saginaw, Michigan.  New Ulm, Minnesota.  Clifton Park, New York.  Waco, Nebraska.  Manitowoc, Wisconsin.  Tacoma, Washington.  Palm Harbor, Florida.  Dallas, Texas.  Milwaukee, Wisconsin.  Watertown, Wisconsin. Over the past two weeks, in ...

Let me present Exhibit A for the reality that God never intended your life or mine to be lived for our own advantage.  (A reality that can all too easily escape our awareness when facing ...

Have you mastered the truth of Easter yet?  I will confess that I clearly haven’t. I’m not talking about mastering the logistical, factual details of the day’s events.  I’ve known that quite well ever since ...

(This devotion, in a slightly modified form, was preached in the chapel of Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary on Monday, March 12, 2018. The video of that chapel service can be found here.) About the last word ...

It is often a troubling and confusing thing to follow as a disciple behind him who was “a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering” (Isaiah 53:3). In faith in him we have been exalted ...

Sunday, we will speak this prayer: “Almighty God, you gave your one and only Son to be the light of the world.  Grant that your people, illumined by your Word and sacraments, may shine with ...

“I am not the Christ” (John 1:20) That straightforward answer by John in Sunday’s gospel (John 1:6-8, 19-28) should be an easy confession for me to imitate. But I confess freely that it is not.  ...

I will not forget last weekend as long as God allows my memory to function.  Last Saturday I had the privilege of joining over 400 of my brothers and sisters in Christ from the Ohio ...