KRISTALLNACHT

Your foes have roared within your holy place;   they set up their emblems there.At the upper entrance they hacked   the wooden trellis with axes.And then, with hatchets and hammers,   they smashed all its carved work.They set your sanctuary on fire;   they desecrated the dwelling-place of your name,   bringing it to the ground.They said to themselves,Continue reading “KRISTALLNACHT”

LENT 2021 – DAY 15

Jeremiah 5:1-9Romans 2:25-3:18John 5:30-47 Circumcision indeed is of value if you obey the law; but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. So, if those who are uncircumcised keep the requirements of the law, will not their uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision? Then those who are physically uncircumcised but keep the law will condemnContinue reading “LENT 2021 – DAY 15”

LENT 2021 – DAY 4

Deuteronomy 7:17-26Titus 3:1-15John 1:43-51 “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” [John 1:46] I have preached exactly one sermon since I retired last December, and it was on the very Gospel lesson that we read today. Those of you who follow the liturgical calendar can remember that this was the reading for January 17 ofContinue reading “LENT 2021 – DAY 4”