Tag Archives: Sacrament

Favorite holiday: Maundy Thursday!

One of my favorite holidays is Maundy Thursday. Not only because on this day at the latest the long weekend started, but also because it was an evening service – nearly as festive, dramatic and emotional as Christmas. Obviously, I … Continue reading

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Maundy Thursday: Institution of the New Testament (The Lord’s supper)

Here are today’s lessons: http://www.dropbox.com/s/spnd1lk5afl6yrc/Maudy Thursday 2017.docx

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Rainy Saturday

It’s Saturday. It’s raining softly and I’ve got time to think of this and that. It’s funny, how you pump into so many people, who have so much in common and get to make so many new friends here at … Continue reading

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Confessional at St.Timothy’s

Here’s this morning’s confessional “Where the Lord leads, blessings follow” preached by Pastor Ed Engelbrecht on Exodus 16:16-30 in the chapel of St.Timothy at the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Tshwane: confessional-ex-1616ff-engelbrecht

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The Holiday of Pentecost

Watchword for the Holiday of Pentecost from Zechariah 4:6  This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts. (KJV) Old Testament reading from Ezekiel … Continue reading

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Sermon on Ac 17:22-32

This morning’s sermon during Matins at the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Tshwane (LTS) on Acts 17:22-32 can be read here: Ac17,22-33 Matins 2016.4.21 and heard here:  We sang the baptismal hymn “All Christians who have been baptised…”. You can listen to … Continue reading

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Herrenhuter readings for Tuesday, the 16th February 2016

Through his prophet Isaiah the living God promises: “Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.” (Isa 55:3 KJV) And … Continue reading

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Lutheran Order of service in isiZulu, seTswana and German

The Lutheran Order of Service for the Holiday of our Lord Jesus’ circumcision and name giving (New Year’s Day) is available here in isiZulu and seTswana. Today it comes with a sermon based on God’s Word from the epistle of … Continue reading

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+ Baptizatus sum +

This day in 1961 I was baptized into the very body of my beloved Lord and only saviour Jesus Christ and into his holy Christian Church for the forgiveness of all my sin, released for good from the power of all evil, death … Continue reading

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Herrenhuter readings for Thursday, the 10th April 2014

The Lord our God remembers his covenant forever, the promise he made, for a thousand generations, (Psa 105:8 NIV) and the word of the Lord endures forever. (1Pe 1:25 NIV)

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