Installations In accord with our usage and order, Michael G. Wagnitz, who was called by Resurrection Lutheran congregation of Calgary, Alberta to be its pastor, was installed on November 29, 1998. –Pastor David Reim Editor’s note: Pastor Reim writes regarding the above installation service: “The service was attended by about 60 people. It was a… Read More »Month Archive Read More
Year/Month: 1999/04
*’WHAT’S YOUR SLANT ON FUNERALS?’ (From the Messiah Messenger, Newsletter of Messiah Lutheran Church, Eau Claire, Wis. The writer is Prof. Em. Paul R. Koch.) If someone is brash enough to ask the question, the answer depends on what funerals he is referring to. This past winter we have been made aware that funerals of… Read More »Month Archive Read More
Luke 12:13-21 THE RICH FOOL The title seems all wrong. The world considers a rich man as smarter, more hardworking, and more lucky than the rest. Rich people are not often thought of as fools, except perhaps by those envious of their riches. God, however, has a way of turning our thoughts and assumptions upside… Read More »Month Archive Read More
Many churches will be involved in Earth Day activities this weekend. Some will even devote their Sunday morning message to this topic. Is this something in which churches should be involved? After His resurrection the Lord sent forth His followers with a specific mission. This same mission is the calling of His followers to this… Read More »Month Archive Read More
“That We Might have Hope” (Rom. 15:4) First Samuel, Chapters One Through Seven Samuel, Prophet and Judge of Israel Three names in these opening chapters of 1 Samuel serve as a skeleton upon which to hang the body of the account: Ichabod, Samuel, and Ebenezer. Ichabod (“the glory has departed from Israel”) — a memorable… Read More »Month Archive Read More
Psalm 123 “LORD, help me bear patiently the insults of the contemptuous world.” A Prayer Psalm Psalm 123 Unto You I lift up my eyes, O You who dwell in the heavens. Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their masters, as the eyes of a maid to the hand of… Read More »Month Archive Read More
“Whosoever is born of God overcometh the world!” — 1 John 5:4-5 John links this thought with what he wrote earlier in chapter 2:13-15, where he says that the young people in the congregation have overcome the wicked one and warns them not to forfeit their victory by falling in love with the world. The… Read More »Month Archive Read More
He is Arisen! Glorious Word! An Easter Hymn #189 in The Lutheran Hymnal You’ve heard it said: “Pressure makes diamonds.” The Lord speaks in similar fashion through Peter’s pen: “You are kept by the power of God . . . In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you… Read More »Month Archive Read More
EASTER 1999 In a world of sin and sorrow there is little of which we can be sure. And many of the things of which we absolutely can be sure we wish weren’t so. For example, we will sin again. “We daily sin much, and indeed deserve nothing but punishment,” we confess with Luther in… Read More »Month Archive Read More
In the last few years we have all seen the t-shirts and decals that say “No Fear.” Those who display this message apparently intend to say that they are bold and courageous, that they have no fear of the things that ordinarily cause fear in others. Perhaps they also intend to embolden and encourage others… Read More »Month Archive Read More
There had never been a football game quite like it. Not in all the years before; not in the 80-some years since. It was a dark and dreary day in 1916, the perfect setting for a matchup between the Yellow Jackets of Georgia Tech and their unlikely opponents from Cumberland. Under the leadership of John… Read More »Month Archive Read More
“Our Savior Jesus Christ . . . has abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel” (2 Tim. 1:10). “Forever with the Lord!” Amen! so let it be. Life from the dead is in that word, ‘Tis immortality. (TLH 616:1) The glorious fate of Christian immortality, that is, the eternal life… Read More »Month Archive Read More