You did it. You made it. Another week is here!

It feels like an accomplishment, doesn’t it? Each week seems to be more exhausting than the week before? I watched Rich Swiatocha welcome us all to worship yesterday and he gave out a shout that 2020 was over. Then I thought, 2021 isn’t off to a better start.

So, I offer you no wise words today. No insights that you weren’t able to come up with on your own. I offer you only one thing. A song. A song whose lyrics I need today and trust you will need them also.

It is the most famous of all of Luther’s hymns. We always sing it on Reformation Sunday, but that is not the day it was written for. In my opinion, it was written to be sung during circumstances described in the last verse, “Were they to take our house, goods, honor, child or spouse, though life be wrenched away…

Do you feel a little hopeless? Do you feel like evil is winning? Do you feel like all is lost?

Perhaps this version of “A Mighty Fortress” will remind you of what is true. It comes in the conclusion of the last verse. I am not going to tell you what it is, you are going to have to listen to it. (Unless you can finish it yourself!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vT6HQ1QaU4

Grace and Peace,

Pastor Tim