Trinity Lutheran Church and Bethany Lutheran Church A Two-point Parish in Jeffers and Storden, Minnesota
Since man has fallen in sin, we all — the whole creation — must suffer the consequence and be subject to futility and vanity...and yet may have hope.
Following Christ means that our whole life is a constant exercise of faith, whereby we are assured that we have favor with God because of him.
My conscience must rest upon the foundation, the eternal, all-knowing truth that God alone is truth, and must rest upon him and nothing else.
God never lays his hand upon us in order that we would be damned but pursues a course that leads us to repentance, so we would seek his grace.
Man is made in God's image and God wills that we revere his image in our neighbor, doing all we can for him, protecting him and doing him good.
In Cain, we see the hateful world, and on the other hand, that poor, abject Abel well represents the obscure little brotherhood: the Church of Christ.