Customer: “I want to buy some acetylsalicylic acid.” Druggist: “Do you man aspirin?” Customer: “Yes I can never remember that word…” Most people can remember and understand simple words more easily than “jaw breaker” terminology. In our Bible the Holy Spirit has presented mind-boggling truths in “aspirin-size” words. For example: Scripture declares that Jesus is…  Read More

The iron bedstead 13 1/2 feet long and 6 feet wide described in Deuteronomy chapter three was both king- and giant-sized. “For only Og, king of Bashan, remained of the remnant of giants. Behold, his bedstead was a bestead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? Nine cubits was the…  Read More

King Jeroboam said it this way: “Lay hold on him” (1 Kgs. 13). A man of God had interrupted a worship service in Bethel at the very moment the king “stood by the altar to burn incense.” The outsider had shouted: “O altar, altar, thus saith the Lord . . . ‘Behold the altar shall…  Read More

More than thirty-five verses in the New Testament speak about your Christian baptism. Verses recorded in Matthew chapter 28 and Mark chapter 16 teach that Jesus started this Sacrament after His resurrection. Acts 2:38 shows that Christians should baptize repentant sinners. The Triune God, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, attached His good news of salvation…  Read More

In this series we are reprinting Spokesman articles by early leaders in the CLC. Pastor Emeritus James Albrecht is the curator of the series. Pastor Robert Mackensen (1920-2012) was a charter member of the CLC, and served congregations in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Colorado and North Carolina. This article is from the Lutheran Spokesman of September 1988.…  Read More