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Blood and fire and vapor of smoke. The sun darkened. The moon turned to blood. Peter doesn’t soften it. He stands before the crowd with the full weight of a world under judgment, groaning under sin and death and the ancient enemy who wields power against it, and declares: into this world, this blood-and-fire world, your world, the Spirit of the living God has come. Into your world. Into this one. Into the grief that attends you here today. And then Peter recites the last ve

The sending of the Spirit on Pentecost Sunday was nothing other than the sending of preachers to proclaim the holy Gospel into all the...

Do not think that it doesn't matter where you go or what you hear or what your heart might think about God, for His Way and His Word and...

May 19, 2024 -- Divine Service