FROM THE FIELD May 5, 2014
Our Practice with Overseas Contacts and Churches EDITOR’S NOTE: Missionary David Koenig, recently retired but still serving as needed, is drawing on his many years… Read More »FROM THE FIELD May 5, 2014
Our Practice with Overseas Contacts and Churches EDITOR’S NOTE: Missionary David Koenig, recently retired but still serving as needed, is drawing on his many years… Read More »FROM THE FIELD May 5, 2014
(Seventh of a Series) And when they arrived in Salamis, they preached the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews. They also had… Read More »The Third Party
(Sixth of a Series) A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink.” For His disciples had gone… Read More »The Disinterested
Those shocked by love (Fifth of a Series) And when they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, commanding the jailer… Read More »The Shocked
One on whom (or near whom) judgment has fallen Then the scribes and Pharisees brought to Him a woman caught in adultery. And when they… Read More »The Shocked
“I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord.” (Philippians 3:8) Whisking across the ocean at 45,000 feet… Read More »GOD’S CO-WORKERS
(Third of a Series) Then one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, perceiving that He had answered them well, asked Him,… Read More »The Willing Inquirer Attracted by Something
(Second of a Series) Then one of the Pharisees asked Him to eat with him. And He went to the Pharisee’s house, and sat down… Read More »Respect for Religion but with Doubts
Introduction In the following examples from Scripture we try to learn ways and attitudes which will better enable us to witness of our Lord to… Read More »ENCOUNTERS OF A SPIRITUAL KIND
(First of a Series) Then Jesus entered and passed through Jericho. Now behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus who was a chief tax collector,… Read More »Hungering and Thirsting after Righteousness
Original Lutheran mission work began in Nigeria with Danish missionaries in 1913. This then was later supported by American Lutherans. For those of our background in the Lutheran Synodical Conference, the work in Nigeria is dated from 1936, so that this year (2011) is the 75th anniversary of that beginning.Read More »Seventy Five Years in Nigeria
A first-person Lenten parable on contrition and repentance
It appeared to be such a splendid day.
Light filtered through the overhanging boughs showing well the path I trod. The sounds of the forest held no warning. The cheerful song of birds, the droning of some busy insects, the rustling of branches as a gentle wind came through, but then I heard it though faintly, but with an increasing tenor.Read More »The Huntsman