Appreciating Our Lutheran Hymns
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…
Historical Markings
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,…
Fortieth Anniversary Historical Vignettes
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…
Thoughts From A Commencement Address
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…
Commencement At Immanuel Lutheran College
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…
Zion Ev. Lutheran Church, Hidewood Township, South Dakota–
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…
A Declaration Of Independence
Nations come into being in many ways. There might be a military coup, a civil strife, treachery and heroes, or a host of other conflicts between the old order and the new. Regardless of the…
Treasured Citizenship
I don’t know if there is another holiday that calls forth the patriotic spirit in Americans like our Fourth of July celebrations. Again this year we have seen the parades, saluted our American flags, and…
Appreciating Our Lutheran Hymns
Come, Oh, Come, Thou Quickening Spirit A Pentecost Hymn #226 in The Lutheran Hymnal The Orders of Morning Service in The Lutheran Hymnal begin with this direction: “A hymn of invocation of the Holy Ghost…
Parables Of The Master
The Lost Son And The Elder Brother The parable of the prodigal or lost son is perhaps the most well-known and touching of Jesus’ many parables. It touches the heart of every mother and father…