The Bible says: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth…” Theistic evolution says: “In the beginning God created the Big Bang.” In spite of what the Bible clearly says, just how God…
I HAVE HEARD IT SAID And what do you think? What bothers me is that I must be a veritable nincompoop! I can’t open my mouth, but that someone is saying to me: “Who are…
“That We Might have Hope” (Rom. 15:4) Second Samuel, Chapters Eleven and Twelve David’s Fall and Repentance Lust, adultery, deceit, murder, and scandal are words that could be torn from the headlines of most any…
Luke 16:1-13 The Parable Of The Unjust Steward To retell Jesus’ parable in a modern setting: “A wealthy businessman had an administrator whom he had hired to manage his financial affairs. Through poor decision-making the…
God Bless Our Native Land A Prayer for the Nation #577 in The Lutheran Hymnal It’s an election year! As you know, that means during the whole year (and more!) leading up to November the…
Where Have We Been? Where Are We Going? . . . When Immanuel congregation in 1959 took up the matter of Christian higher education and gave its blessing to the beginning of a high school,…
vignette (vin-yet’), n. 1. short literary essay; sketch vignettist (vin-yet’ist), n. a maker of vignettes, painter, photographer, or writer Dateline: Middleton, Wisconsin DUANE W. RIGGERT, VIGNETTIST It has been a blessing to have so long…
Due to space constraints, printed here are excerpts only, allowing the reader to “catch the flavor” of the President’s address at the ILC Commencement service on May 20, 2000. The text used by Prof. John…
May 20, 2000 President John Pfeiffer’s commencement address (entitled “With All Your Might,” based on Ecclesiastes 9:10; see page of this issue) struck the keynote for the entire repertoire of our school’s closing events. On…
100 Years Of God’s Grace (1899-1999) In the 1870’s and 1880’s a number of German Lutheran families came to settle in Hidewood Township in Deuel County, South Dakota. There was no established Lutheran Church in…
