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Heaven is Our Home!

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Elvis Presley sang “Home is where the heart is.” Computer techies would suggest “home is where your Wi-Fi connects automatically.” Poet Robert Frost said, “Home is where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.”

How about you? Where is your “home?”

After being gone from “home” with my wife to the Canadian Rockies recently, I know how great it is to be back “home” in the USA.

“Home” is where we live. It is where we have been, where we can get comfortable, where we are.

Hymn 463 “For All the Saints, Who from Their Labors Rest”

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If William Walsham How, the author of this hymn, saw it in The Lutheran Hymnal, I think he might not entirely approve. The words in our hymnal are his, but the order is not; and three of the original stanzas have been left out.

In this long hymn, How develops the theme of the Church Militant1 looking to the Church Triumphant2 as an example and encouragement to us in our daily battles, finally culminating in the glorious return of Christ on Judgment Day. That’s a multi-part theme, which How developed in a logical and chronologically progressive manner. Unfortunately, that careful development has been somewhat weakened in our version due to the omission of three verses and a change in the placement of one verse.

The Real Thing

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“Therefore it was necessary that the copies of the things in the heavens should be purified with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. For Christ has not entered the holy… 

Carl Monrad “C. M.” Gullerud (1908-1995)

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As we approach the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, we take a brief look at the lives of influential and important Lutheran leaders and theologians. Carl Monrad Gullerud was born into the Norwegian Synod in… 

Good News Transportation!

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In this series, thoseinvolved with CLC foreign missions profile one aspect of our overseas endeavors. When Jesus said; “Go into all  the world and preach the gospel to every creature,” He did not say how… 

St. John’s Lutheran Church Okabena, Minnesota

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Snapshots of Congregations from Around the Church of the Lutheran Confession St. John’s Lutheran Church was founded in May of 1895 by German immigrant farmers in West Heron Lake Township, Jackson County, Minnesota. It started… 

Gift of God Lutheran Church, Mapleton, North Dakota

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Each month our CLC Board of Missions updates us with the latest news from various mission fields. If your last visit to the little town of Mapleton, North Dakota, was more than a year ago,… 

“BREAD OF LIFE” READINGS October 2016

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TLH = The Lutheran Hymnal, 1941; WS = Worship Supplement 2000; [ ] = Biblical Events Noted

Date Verse Reading Comments [Festivals of the Church Year]

Oct 1 TLH 267 Psalm 46 With God as our fortress, we find safety amid any turmoil.

Oct 3 TLH 340 Psalm 92 We “bookend” our days with the Lord’s love and faithfulness (v. 2).

Oct 4 TLH 570 Psalm 136 A refrain for the ages.

Oct 5 TLH 339 2 Chronicles 9:13-23 Solomon’s riches and wisdom were as great as we can imagine.  But think now—one even greater than Solomon is here (Luke 11:31).

Oct 6 TLH 658 1 Timothy 6:3-16 Even as Christ fought the good fight of faith before Pontius Pilate, we as Jesus’ children flee the world’s evil and pursue  eternal life.