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An Excellent, Commendable Custom
An Excellent, Commendable Custom

Formerly, each Sunday, we used to sing Nicea’s confession of faith, formulated at the Council of Nicea, in the words: Et homo factus est, “And he became man,” and everyone fell to his knees. That was an excellent, commendable custom and it might well still be practiced, so that we might thank God from the heart that Christ assumed human nature and bestowed such great and high honor upon us, allowing his Son to become man.—Homily on the Day of the Annunciation, 1532 Martin Luther (House Postils III:292)

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A Sermon by the Rev. Eric Andræ
A Sermon by the Rev. Eric Andræ

2nd Sunday after the Epiphany

Eric R. Andræ

St. John 2:1-11. 

In the name of + Jesus. Amen.

Soaked and bloody. 

Soaked and bloody…is our Lord – last week baptized in the Jordan River, his hour has not yet come, but soon, soon he will indeed drench the earth with his blood shed from the cross for the sins of the world. Soaked and bloody is our Lord. Soaked and bloody is his Word throughout, soaked and bloody is all of God’s story with & among his people.  It’s all about water and blood, blood and water.

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