SO WHEN WILL THE LORD COME?
As we come to the end of a century and move toward the year 2000, we are hearing more and more of end-time prophecies. Add in the Y2K concerns and there is a ready-made opportunity…
Father’s Day Thoughts —
A GOOD START Ever notice if you don’t get the first button right, all the other ones end up wrong as well? Ever notice that if a child doesn’t have a good start in life,…
PEBBLES IN OUR SHOES
“In everything give thanks, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus” (1 Thessalonians 5:18) Imagine a beautiful, sunny day. Your plan is to hike a mountain trail. As you begin, you can’t…
Appreciating Our Lutheran Hymns
Oh, that I Had a Thousand Voices Hymn of Praise to the Trinity #243 in The Lutheran Hymnal Our annual pilgrimage from Clarkston, Wash. to Eau Claire, Wis. takes us over Lolo Pass on the…
Parables Of The Master
Luke 13:6-9 The Barren Fig Tree St. Paul uses words like “grace” and “love” to personify Jesus, as in Titus 2 and 3. There is another word which hasn’t been overly used or abused yet–the…
Sixth in a series (from an essay by Pastor Thomas Schuetze)
Psalm 125 “LORD, thank You for keeping my soul safe.” A Psalm of Thanks Psalm 125 Those who trust in the LORD are like Mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but abides forever. As the…
SMORGASBORD
Our staff members were invited to pass along what they may have written on the subject of the Littleton, Colorado tragedy for their local bulletins or newsletters. We offer the following Christian perspectives. * POSSESSED…
From The Editor:
A Synod Anniversary The constituting convention of a new confessional Lutheran church body known as the Church of the Lutheran Confession (CLC) took place August 9-12, 1960 at Trinity Ev. Lutheran Church in Watertown, S.Dak.…
A Return to the One-Room School House
(By Chris Williams, Austin {Minn.} Daily Herald, February 28, 1999) It is a mix of Biblical teaching, traditionalism, and old-fashioned values designed to help prepare students for the modern world. St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran School…
From the Nicene Creed:
” . . . And I believe in the Holy Ghost, The Lord and Giver of Life, Who proceedeth from the Father and the Son, Who with the Father and the Son together is worshiped…