Psalming Padawan

I will greatly rejoice in the LORD;
   my soul shall exult in my God,
for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation;
   he has covered me with the robe of righteousness,
as a bridegroom decks himself like a priest with a beautiful headdress,
   and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
For as the

I believe in one Lord Jesus Christ, who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven, and was incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the virgin Mary and was made man...

Today is the start of Advent - He comes.  The Lord comes.  That's what we believe.  We said again it today in the Divine Service.  He comes as King - not to condemn, not to judge.  But he

    “The song of the angels.”  That’s what Martin Luther called the Gloria in Excelsis.  It is the heavenly song of the Angels from the night when Christ was born.  It’s origin, however, is much earlier than Luther, yea, it comes from the early centuries of the church.
    The earliest form comes

Now when Jesus had entered Capernaum, a centurion came to Him, pleading with Him, 6 saying, “Lord, my servant is lying at home paralyzed, dreadfully tormented.” 7 And Jesus said to him, “I will come and heal him.”

God’s love for us is astounding.  Look at what humanity has done: we kill, slander, lie, lust, steal, hate, and are loveless towards our neighbors and especially towards God.  We are the reason Christ died.  In that through-death-way, however, God showed his love for us.  He reconciled all men to himself.  Christ dying for us is really what the Gospel is