Installations In accord with our usage and order Wayne C. Eichstadt who was called as associate pastor by Immanuel Ev. Lutheran Church of Mankato, Minnesota was installed on January 11, 1998. — Pastor P. D. Nolting In accord with our usage and order, Warren Fanning, who had been called as Exploratory Missionary in Gold Canyon,… Read More »Month Archive Read More
Year/Month: 1998/03
Mixture of Worthy Goals and Anti-Biblical Teaching “Promise Keepers” is a national men’s movement that is sweeping the country. It is built around some very good ideas about men taking responsibility for family obligations–in particular, exercising spiritual leadership within the home. It began when a former football coach, Bill McCartney, held a rally in 1990… Read More »Month Archive Read More
5. LUTHER AS HUSBAND AND FATHER “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her . . . . Fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord” — Ephesians 5:25, 6:4. Martin Luther proposed to and… Read More »Month Archive Read More
Standing Fast In The liberty By Which Christ Has Made Us Free (See 5:1) Galatians 3:26-4:7 The Well-dressed Christian “Clothes make the man!” said the smartly dressed collegiate to a classmate. “Not so” retorted his ‘fashion-challenged’ friend; “You can’t judge a book by its cover!” Thus went the battle of clichés in a debate with… Read More »Month Archive Read More
* HAVE YOU OPENED YOUR CATECHISM LATELY? — Is it sitting on the shelf collecting dust much like your Bible? How sad it is if this is the case! Someone once said, “I must still read and study daily, and yet I cannot master it as I wish, but must remain a child and pupil… Read More »Month Archive Read More
The beginnings of the new professional football season are underway. Soon enough, fans across the world will excitedly greet the much anticipated TV commercials of Super Bowl Sunday. Each company will spend millions of dollars to develop an advertisement with a catchy slogan and then spend millions more to air it on national TV. The… Read More »Month Archive Read More
Lessons From A Sports Saying A volleyball team I saw had the saying “there is no I in team” printed on their warm-up shirts. What they meant by this was that selfishness is not part of being on a team. You shouldn’t keep track of individual statistics, and you should help out your teammate by… Read More »Month Archive Read More
There’s a story about Christians in a cell awaiting their doom — to be fed to hungry lions. With only minutes left to live, they sing joyful hymns! A Roman guard pokes his head into the cell and asks: “What’s the matter–don’t you have a sense of the situation?” These Christians were convinced of Jesus’… Read More »Month Archive Read More
I have an old shepherd in my congregation. He and his wife spent their younger years tending sheep out on the rolling prairies of eastern Montana. When I stop in for visits they often speak of those days. I’m all ears. For not only are their insights and stories interesting in themselves. They often provide… Read More »Month Archive Read More