Change Of Address Mr. Kevin Hulke 1529 Third Avenue Mankato, MN 56001 Phone (507) 625-6110 School (507) 345-3027 Mr. Thomas Skinner 201 31st Street SW Austin, MN 55912 Phone (507) 437-1968 School (507) 433-8191 Women’s Luncheon Women of the CLC are invited to attend a luncheon to be held at Messiah Lutheran Church of Eau… Read More »Month Archive Read More
Year/Month: 1996/03
Meet: Sarah Lau Sarah Lau is presently teaching at Trinity Lutheran School in Watertown, South Dakota. She received her teaching degree from Immanuel Lutheran College, Eau Claire, Wis. upon graduating in May, 1995. Although she was enrolled in the teaching program at ILC, Sarah had not planned on becoming a teacher after graduating. The summer… Read More »Month Archive Read More
We have been studying the Psalms in one of our study groups. In the eleventh Psalm, v. 3, we came upon a question to which the community of Christian believers can easily relate in our day: “When the foundations are being destroyed, what can the righteous do?” We needn’t take much time to make a… Read More »Month Archive Read More
Special Letter to the Editor One Sunday this past September a woman who had been taking Bible lessons toward membership in our Live Oak, Florida congregation (only two of some twenty lessons remained) was shot to death outside the front door of the church. The victim had been in Bible Class, had stepped outside to… Read More »Month Archive Read More
And There Is! Perhaps the reason so many people continue to reject the notion of evolution is that it seems contrary to ordinary experience. Things left to chance just don’t get done. Random changes in anything simply do not produce higher levels of organization and complexity. Rather, all complex machines and devices with which we… Read More »Month Archive Read More
Few people grow grapes, but many people enjoy roses, which have the same properties. Both types of plants require care, which remind us of the True Vine lesson of Christ. “I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman” (Jn. 15:1-KJV). A rose grower will prune away all the deadwood on his bushes,… Read More »Month Archive Read More
(2 Cor. 5:17) Studies in Second Corinthians Chapter 8 This Grace Of Giving Please read chapter 8 of Second Corinthians. It is about taking an offering. A refreshing surprise for people who have been dulled in spirit by the countless pleas for funds that assail us. The new creature in Christ is drawn to it… Read More »Month Archive Read More
and the elders mocked him . . . ” Matthew 27:41 The famous author and editor H. L. Mencken once wrote: “Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.” When Jesus was crucified, that was injustice. And while He hung by the side of the road, and the crowds came by to make… Read More »Month Archive Read More
Do you remember hearing anyone asking, back around the middle of February, if you had “gotten shriven yet?” The 3-day pre-Lent season of “Shrovetide” and the custom of “getting shriven” then, are forgotten customs most everywhere. Once in a while you might hear of “Shrove Tuesday.” “Shrive” and “shrove” go back to the Latin work… Read More »Month Archive Read More