Little Rock, Arkansas A CLC member in Little Rock, Arkansas would like to know of other CLC members in that area. For more information please contact Pastor Joel Fleischer, 811 South First Street, Lamar, CO 81052 Amarillo, Texas CLC Members in the Amarillo, Texas area, or their pastors, are encouraged to contact Pastor Joel Fleischer,… Read More »Month Archive Read More
Year/Month: 1995/06
One of the most rewarding and encouraging means of mission outreach conducted last year by our mission church, Ascension Lutheran, was their Vacation Bible School. Since the Community Center, which is used for worship, also functions as City Hall on the weekdays, there were no facilities available for a VBS. Plans were made to conduct… Read More »Month Archive Read More
This year was the first ever VBS at the Church of the Lutheran Confession in North Port, Florida. The teachers were Judy Stewart, Guilda Mitchell, Dorothy Garcia, and Pastor Stewart. Our congregation is made up largely of retired folks, some of whom were a bit unsure about starting a VBS program. Would it be an… Read More »Month Archive Read More
The marvelous ability of all living things to reproduce themselves after their kind is one of the most distinctive properties of life. This reproductive ability depends in part on a vast collection of precise genetic instructions, called genes (about 100,000 in humans), that reside in every cell of each living organism. It is believed that… Read More »Month Archive Read More
From June 1965: How Every Christian Serves His Country When Christians get to feel the world’s hostility — the “hatred” that Jesus said should not amaze us — they are often tempted to withdraw. The urge is to colonize; to seek out your own with whom to work and among whom to live. Sound sensible?… Read More »Month Archive Read More
A word of clarification perhaps needs to be given regarding violence, and even murder, at abortion clinics by pro-life activists. No, we are not for it! In “The Diary of a Fetus” in our January issue we used what some might call inflammatory rhetoric when we quoted Revelation 21:8 which says: “But … murders …… Read More »Month Archive Read More
“Fools mock at sin, but among the upright there is favor” (Prov. 14:9). There is much mocking of sin these days. It is the subject of jokes for stand-up comedians. Sins are spoken of as things thoroughly delightful, as though the greatest pleasures in life are to be found in those things that God has… Read More »Month Archive Read More
Studies in Second Corinthians The Paradox Of The Gospel Ministry But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us. (We are) hard pressed on every side, yet not crushed; (we are) perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down,… Read More »Month Archive Read More
Those readers who never experience difficulty in initiating a discussion about our Savior with strangers sitting next to them on the plane, or with unbelievers working at their side or even sharing their home may skip this item and go on the the next. This article is intended for those who, like the writer, ever… Read More »Month Archive Read More
Or do we? How often do we use the word “implore” anymore? “Implore” seems to fall into a category with ideas like “appeal”, “beg”, “petition”, — all of which suggest that the implorer/appellant/ beggar/petitioner is empty, desolate, impotent. Perhaps a more popular translation might be phrased: “We Currently Requisition God…” As a society we’re not… Read More »Month Archive Read More