* YOUR TV, A THREAT TO FAITH —(From a Sunday bulletin this fall at St. John’s Lutheran Church, Okabena, Minn.; Vance Fossum is pastor) It is becoming a fairly regular happening: as the new TV… 

request the Pacific Coast Pastoral Conference, October 1997. For reasons of space we divide it into two parts. “THE MILLENNIUM” — Let’s Enjoy It Now! (Part I) Will we enter a golden age when the… 

worked together almost around the clock–in the weeks before Pastor David Reim left for Vernon, British Columbia–to complete a large stained glass project that had been in planning for almost a year. The excitement built… 

Our CLC teachers converged on Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota for the annual Teachers’ Conference at Berea Ev. Lutheran Church and School on October 15-17. The weather was wonderful and the hospitality of the Berea family… 

If you could choose any one thing in the entire universe that would make 1998 a happy new year for you, what would it be? For a lot of folks the answer is this simple:… 

–Psalm 31:15 There is a creeping malaise of pessimism seizing the hearts and minds of people today. This feeling of helplessness and frustration is heightened by the passing of another year and the approaching end… 

The wonder and joy that surrounds the arrival of a newborn infant is something to behold. When a parent or grandparent gathers up that small bundle for a first look, there is always a sense… 

Standing Fast In The Liberty By Which Christ Has Made Us Free (See 5:1) Chapter 3:15-25 THE “NANNY SERVICE” OF THE LAW Is it important for us to know what the Lord’s apostle wrote in… 

“Wouldn’t a Christmas baby be just sooo precious?!” Parents who are expecting a child in December grow accustomed to hearing this. Certainly a Christmas birth is meaningful to Christian parents, as it should be also… 

Are you dreaming of a white Christmas? For many it just doesn’t seem like Christmas without at least a little snow. There is nothing quite like the calm and quiet which descends after a heavy…