Martin Luther taught that covetousness—the restless desire for more—must be put to death. The Christian test is plain: the Golden Rule, dealing with others as we would be dealt with, the foundation of equity and justice.

Yet today complaints of unfairness are often dismissed as envy, and the charge of coveting is turned upon the complainant rather than the sin.

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Martin Luther basically says every Christian hosts a daily argument between “Old Adam” and a conscience trained by Scripture. One wants holiness; the other wants snacks, shortcuts, and another pint. True faith trains the heart to praise Christ, serve neighbors, and stop cheating people. Beer optional. Moses still teaching.

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Morris Officer, founder of the first Lutheran mission in Liberia, looked squarely at the slave trade and could bear it no longer. He prayed that every trace of that cruel traffic would be washed away. His response wasn’t theory, but repentance and hope. What injustices do we dare to pray would be cleansed from our own world—and our own hearts?

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Today is the twelfth anniversary of my ordination to the ministry of Word and Sacrament in the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic church of Christ through the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

Every year I learn something new. Including how to reliably spell "twelfth" correctly.

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Martin Luther, explaining Matthew 5, presses Christ’s words to their limit: if devotion interferes with love of neighbor, devotion must wait. Luther even says God would rather see no church built than a neighbor neglected. The obstacle to worship, he suggests, may be the grievance our neglect creates. How will you seek reconciliation where duty and devotion collide?

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Andreas Hyperius, a 16th-century Flemish Lutheran/Reformed theologian, reads “You shall not steal” with unnerving specificity: withholding wages, shaving pay, defaulting on what is owed. His moral clarity assumes obedience reaches into ordinary economic life—even where raising such concerns makes people bristle. Scripture leaves little room for comfortable evasions.

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Luther says a Christian doesn’t curl up like a house cat and call it faith. You stretch. By faith, you reach up into God like a tree grabbing sunlight; by love, you reach down into your neighbour like roots in everyone’s garden. If you’re only growing upward, you’re basically a very holy stick.

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I enjoy Palm Springs with this little ugly duckling, but what she lacks in the face, she makes up for elsewhere. The advantage of a shorter woman, easier to pass around the table.

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