TO READ IN BOOK FORMAT, OR TO PRINT THIS ARTICLE, CLICK ON THIS LINK – 13-The-Importance-of-possessing-a-guilty-   Psalm 51:10-12:  “Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me!  Do not cast me away from your presence, and do not take your Holy Spirit from me!  Restore to me the joy…

TO READ IN BOOK FORMAT, OR TO PRINT THIS ARTICL, CLICK ON THIS LINK – 14-A-Sermon-in-memory-of-P-E-Kretzmann   Psalm 112:6:  The righteous will be in everlasting remembrance. Following Scripture, a genuine Lutheran congregation will not give extraordinary exaltation to its departed members by eulogizing them at their funerals, for instance, or much worse, by praying to them…

TO READ IN BOOK FORMAT, OR TO PRINT THIS ARTICLE, CLICK ON THIS LINK – 15-A-4th-of-july-Sermon- Jeremiah 29:7:  Seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray to the Lord for it; for in its peace you will have peace! Until rather late in the history of…

TO READ IN BOOK FORMAT, OR TO PRINT THIS ARTICLE, CLICK ON THIS LINK – 16-The-Lord-defends-a-powerless-Nation-Jehosaphat   2nd Chronicles 19:4-20:32 About nine hundred years before the birth at Bethlehem of Jesus Christ, mankind’s Savior and God, there lived a king by the name of Jehoshaphat.  His capital was Jerusalem.  Spiritually, he was a believer in the…