In the summer of 2018 Rev. John C. Stennfeld set out to teach his parishioners 14 Bible passages that he thought every Christian should know and have memorized. Having realized that most of his members had so few Bible passages memorized, he solicited the input of fellow pastors and compiled a list of verses that seemed to be essential to the Christian’s walk of faith. That list can be seen by clicking here. Each Sunday throughout that summer Rev. Stennfeld (Pastor John) highlighted and preached on one of those 14 essential memory texts. In order to help those verses come alive and become more memorable to the congregation, Pastor John decided to write a hymn for each of these Bible texts. It was so well received by the congregation that Pastor John set out on a mission that summer to write a new hymn each week on one of the lessons appointed for the day for the entire three-year cycle of the lectionary of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. In the fall of 2022, Rev. Stennfeld completed that project. What is contained in this website are the hymns that he completed for these two projects – the essential memory verses sermon series and the three-year lectionary series – along with other topical hymns and text based hymns that he continues to write. This website will thus be an evolving site as Pastor John continues to write more hymns based upon  various texts in the Scriptures and for various occasions in the life and year of the church. To God be the glory.