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		<title>THE BABBLE OF BABEL CONTINUES</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Many people value name recognition. Corporations pay millions of dollars to put their name on sports stadiums. Basketball players &#8220;pop&#8221; their jersey or point to the last name on the back of their jersey after making a great play. Kings build grand memorials in hopes that generations to come will remember them. Man wants to&#8230;&#160;<a href="https://lutheranspokesman.org/2026/03/01/the-babble-of-babel-continues/" rel="bookmark"><span class="screen-reader-text">THE BABBLE OF BABEL CONTINUES</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>RIZPAH, A MOTHER&#8217;S LOVE</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Have you heard of Rizpah? It would not surprise me if you haven&#8217;t. She is mentioned on only two occasions in Scripture. Not a single word is attributed to her, only actions. She was a concubine of King Saul (2 Samuel 3) and was likely also used as one by Saul&#8217;s general, Abner, after Saul&#8217;s&#8230;&#160;<a href="https://lutheranspokesman.org/2026/02/01/rizpah-a-mothers-love/" rel="bookmark"><span class="screen-reader-text">RIZPAH, A MOTHER&#8217;S LOVE</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>OPERATION INFANT RESCUE</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[History has recorded some notable and important rescues. In WWII alone, General MacArthur and his family were rescued from Corregidor in the Philippines by PT boats followed by a plane to Melbourne. The raid at Cabanatuan (Philippines) by the US Army 6th Rangers liberated over five hundred Allied prisoners and civilians from a Japanese camp.&#8230;&#160;<a href="https://lutheranspokesman.org/2026/01/01/operation-infant-rescue/" rel="bookmark"><span class="screen-reader-text">OPERATION INFANT RESCUE</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>ONLY ONE PART IS NOT REPLACEABLE</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2025 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;So Moses did as the Lord commanded him. He took Joshua and set him before Eleazar the priest and before all the congregation. And he laid his hands on him and inaugurated him, just as the Lord commanded by the hand of Moses.&#8221; (Numbers 27:22-23) Eli Whitney is often credited with first implementing interchangeable parts&#8230;&#160;<a href="https://lutheranspokesman.org/2025/11/01/only-one-part-is-not-replaceable/" rel="bookmark"><span class="screen-reader-text">ONLY ONE PART IS NOT REPLACEABLE</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>THEN THEY SHALL KNOW THAT I AM THE LORD</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2025 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In high school I had a teacher who was fond of quoting a Latin proverb that translates, &#8220;Repetition is the mother of learning.&#8221; We recognize the wisdom in those words, for it is by repeated hearing or reading of subject matter that it becomes fixed in the mind. We see the principle of learning by&#8230;&#160;<a href="https://lutheranspokesman.org/2025/09/01/then-they-shall-know-that-i-am-the-lord/" rel="bookmark"><span class="screen-reader-text">THEN THEY SHALL KNOW THAT I AM THE LORD</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>GOLDEN RATS AND TUMORS</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2025 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[From little on, children are told the story of the Golden Calf, the idol erected by Aaron while Moses was on Mount Sinai receiving the Ten Commandments. How quickly the Israelites turned to the false gods of the Egyptians in attempting to solve their problems! Less familiar, perhaps, is the account of the golden rats&#8230;&#160;<a href="https://lutheranspokesman.org/2025/08/01/golden-rats-and-tumors/" rel="bookmark"><span class="screen-reader-text">GOLDEN RATS AND TUMORS</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
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