Women’s Fellow Luncheon “Read All the Days of Your Life” based on Deuteronomy 17:19 “And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life: that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them.”… Read More »Month Archive Read More
Year/Month: 1998/04
Q: What are AAL and LB? A: Aid Association for Lutherans and Lutheran Brotherhood are “fraternal benefit societies.” They sell insurance policies to their members on a non-profit basis. They do generate income, but instead of paying dividends to shareholders, they use the money for social and religious causes among Lutheran churches. Q: Who can… Read More »Month Archive Read More
“That We Might Have Hope” (Rom. 15:4) Deuteronomy Chapters One Through Thirty-four Moses, Prophet Of God The word prophet is most commonly used of someone who is thought to be able to foretell the future. For example, Nostradamus, a French astrologer of the sixteenth century, has been called a prophet because his book of obscure… Read More »Month Archive Read More
Luke 7:41-50 — The Two Debtors A parable has been defined as an instruction method in which scenes from nature or from human life are used to illustrate higher religious or religious-moral truths. Presenting those truths in vivid parable form makes them easier to understand and to remember. The parable we consider first is found… Read More »Month Archive Read More
The President of the CLC has recently approved our request to help both couples in the CLC as well as unmarried mothers or fathers in the CLC who are considering adoption for their child. Ross and Lynette Roehl would collect profiles of couples in the CLC who wish to adopt a child. We will keep… Read More »Month Archive Read More
* PROMISE KEEPERS UPDATE Last month on these pages we ran Pastor Bruce Naumann’s helpful and informative article on the Promise Keepers. The article pointed out that the movement is a “mixture of worthy goals and anti-biblical teaching” and, because of the latter, conscientious Christians will want to “steer clear” of it. We are aware… Read More »Month Archive Read More
There it was, what used to be my good shovel! Left outdoors underneath a snowbank all winter, the spring thaw revealed a now badly rusted spade. With a packet of heavy duty sandpaper and lots of elbow grease I knew I could remove the rust and save it for useful work. The shovel would never… Read More »Month Archive Read More
If you’ve driven south out of Markesan on highway 44 lately, you may have noticed that the highway department has an important message for you at the front of the Markesan cemetery. As the photo shows, a big orange sign was left leaning against the stone entrance, reading ‘ONE LANE ROAD AHEAD.’ Whether they intended… Read More »Month Archive Read More
Through Grace To Resurrection By the time many of you read this, the writer will have changed addresses. He will have moved from Grace to Resurrection, from Fridley, Minnesota to Corpus Christi, Texas. It is one of the advantages that the CLC enjoys to this point that its president still serves as an active pastor… Read More »Month Archive Read More
A recent novel titled ‘A Skeleton in God’s Closet‘ revolves around the crucial question: “What if modern-day archeologists were to suddenly unearth the remains of Christ’s body?” In other words, what if Jesus had been crucified, dead, and buried, and that was the end? That prospect was the cause of the women’s sadness as they… Read More »Month Archive Read More
In Marquette, Michigan, which had record snowfall in 1997 of almost three hundred inches, Easter was indeed white last year, as snow lay on the ground that day. But whether you live in Marquette, Michigan, Phoenix Arizona, or Winter Haven, Florida, Easter will always be white for believers in Christ Jesus. The Color Of Mourning… Read More »Month Archive Read More