Meet Pastor David Ude
I am David Ude (and as my Mom would point out, that’s David, not Dave!). I am child number eight of nine and pastor number four of four in our immediate family! I am blessed to…
Meet Pastor Peter Evensen
“Lead me in Your truth and teach me, for You are the God of my salvation; on You I wait all the day” Psalm 25:5 I was raised on a ranch north of Grand Rapids, Minnesota.…
31st Convention of the CLC
Report on the
31st Convention of the CLC
THEME:
God Our Savior Desires
All Men to be Saved!
1 Timothy 2:3-7
For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God
our Savior, who desires all men to be saved
and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
“Turning the World “Upside Down”
CLC President’s Report to the 31st Convention
Dear saints in Christ and fellow workers in His kingdom:
Does it matter? Does what we do here make any real, significant, positive, lasting difference? If it does, we have reason and incentive to get to work; if not, what’s the point? From a human perspective we have little chance of accomplishing anything lasting. We are a small group with no political capital to spend and few material resources. What could we possibly do?
However, that could also have been said of the Apostle Paul and Silas when they arrived in Thessalonica in the course of Paul’s second missionary journey. There was nothing impressive about these two itinerant missionaries of Jesus. Yet before long, the Jews were accusing Paul and the other Christians of “turning the world upside down” (Acts 17:6). Sent out from the living Lord of the Church, they upset the status quo. Hearts and attitudes were completely changed. Without question, they made a difference.
“God Our Savior Desires All Men to be Saved!”
Jesus is the One Meditator of that Truth!
The year was 1976, and I was ten years old, growing up just outside of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.
The company where my Dad worked was a union shop, and a strike was called because of a disagreement between management and the union. The strike lasted for at least a year. No doubt the union workers were not 100% satisfied with the fact that non-union workers were allowed in the shop. But the mediators, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), had spoken, and that was it.
Praise Be to the Paraclete!
“I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever.” (John 14:16, NIV 1984)
PARACLETE—It’s a name we probably don’t use too often in our prayers. It may ring strange in our ears when we sing it in hymns at church.
What does that name mean and why is it ascribed to the Holy Spirit? “Paraclete” comes from two Greek words: para (“beside”) and kaleo (“call”). Putting these words together yields the word’s basic meaning: “Someone called to be at your side.”
Camp Koyquin 2014
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God at work—FOR US!
Then Peter said to them, “Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.…
Christ’s Rock-solid Foundation for Life
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Serving the Servants’ Servant
LAST OF FIVE PARTS OF A SERIES ON THE SECOND ARTICLE “This is most certainly true!” THE APOSTLES’ CREED I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth. And in Jesus Christ,…