We are just a few days out from the Fourth of July, the great annual celebration of our […]
Category Archive: Paul Koch
By now many of you have probably caught wind of the “Sparkle Creed”. An ultra woke attempt by […]
One of the great metaphors employed when speaking about a person’s salvation is that of “freedom.” Many times, […]
Exodus 19 describes the arrival of the people of God at the foot of Mount Sinai. This is […]
There is a legendary theologian of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod named Francis Pieper, who wrote back in […]
Today is Holy Trinity Sunday, a unique day in the Church Calendar, where we do not focus on […]
Today is the celebration of Pentecost. It is a day in which we recount the famous story of […]
My wife’s mother worked for many years as the director of a Christian preschool called Noah’s Ark. It […]
There seems to be a growing crisis in our age, especially with the younger generations, although no doubt […]
The two disciples heading from Jerusalem to Emmaus provide for us an incredible interaction with our risen Lord. […]
The Sunday after Easter is when things get real. The excitement of the past week has died down. […]
Life is a fleeting thing. Time is precious, or so we like to tell ourselves. We often catch […]
There is a definite theme to this Sunday. All the readings seem to be focused on the same […]
“Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.” Those are beautiful words, […]
For the first time in a long time, our slice of Southern California seems to be saturated with […]
Saint Paul famously said, “Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling […]
In the beginning there was as a tree, and concerning that tree there was a Word from God. […]
I cannot recall if it was during a Sunday School class or perhaps it was a Vacation Bible […]
We ascribe to God as many accolades and words of praise as we can manage. We speak of […]
She had come to see her pastor. To talk about something that was weighing on her mind. After […]
