Faith Lutheran Church and Student Center

We pray in the collect (that is prayer) of the day “O Lord, let Your merciful ears be attentive to the prayers of Your servants, and by Your Word and Spirit teach us how to pray that our petitions may be pleasing before You.” We see prayer in action in our Old Testament lesson as…

This heartfelt funeral sermon compares the birth of a child with the pain of death, weaving together personal memories and gospel hope. Karen, like all of us, bore thorns—grief, physical suffering, and loss—but through Christ, those thorns have become jewels. Drawing from 2 Corinthians 12, the preacher highlights God’s grace in weakness, showing how Jesus’…

The author of Hebrews writes, “Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares” (Hebrews 13:2). Perhaps he had Genesis 18 in mind when writing this verse. Certainly it was not merely an angel that visited Abraham that day. Our text reads, “The Lord (Yahweh) appeared to [Abraham] by…