Saint Athanasius Lutheran Church

Hearing God's Word, learning it, applying it, believing it, submitting to it ... it isn't easy. Because it means confessing that I'm not the king. It means confessing that I am a sinner. It means admitting that maybe I don't know all I think I know. That maybe the way I've ordered my life isn't right at all. That I need to hear something to set me free from the palace of my own desires, defenses, and demands that I have built around myself -- that turned out to be not a palace, but a prison.