The Lutheran Hour

God doesn’t look for valuable, desirable, beautiful people so that He can love them. God loves first, and by loving them He makes people valuable, desirable, and beautiful.

Jesus meets you where you are, not where you should have been.

Jesus is the only way to God, but there are many adventures with Jesus. Which ones will you pick?

When we couldn’t pay the price of our redemption, God did so completely by the life of Jesus.

Through the Bible, God invites us to help Him complete the unfinished drama He's been writing for the world.

To be baptized into Christ, to trust in Him, is to die with Him, to be raised by Him, to pass through the fire under His shelter.

Michael Schutz, Lead Pastor of Concordia Lutheran Church in Penticton and Lutheran Church–Canada vice president, reflects on mountain scenes in Scripture and the Transfiguration. He contrasts mountaintop revelation with everyday valleys. He urges listening to God’s voice, warns against chasing spiritual highs, and frames the Transfiguration as a waypoint toward the cross and future hope.

In the Bible, the Holy Spirit meets us, gives us the mind of Christ, and leads us back into the world as children of God.

A sermon exploring boasting as rotten fruit and how context changes value. A rotten tomato story sets up reflections on pride, failure, and recovery. Paul’s concern about Corinthian boasting and the paradox of the cross get examined. A VeggieTales rise-and-fall story illustrates pride, collapse, and renewed perspective rooted in belonging to Jesus.

A crossword puzzle uses an answer only once, but Christ is the answer for all people in every place and time.