“Oh come, let us worship and bow down; Let us kneel before the LORD our Maker.” Psalm 95:6 Ninth in a Series– Instruction from God’s Word (Continued) The Gospel Sometimes the Scripture readings are preceded… 

Matthew 21:28-32 The two sons with attitude problems In this parable Jesus addresses one problem, and one problem only; it’s attitude. The chief priests and the elders of the people (v.23)–probably all of them Pharisees… 

“That we might have hope” (Romans 15:4) First Kings, Chapter Seventeen Elijah and the Widow of Zarephath Through the prophet Elijah the Lord let King Ahab know that a drought was coming. This drought, brought… 

Football And Faith If spring is the time when a young man’s fancies turn to . . . , then fall is the season when watching the great American pastime of football takes over the… 

“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and… 

Mark Twain once opined that “soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.” The world chuckled, but not Solomon. “A wise man will hear… 

(Adapted with permission from an article in the Kimball, Minnesota newspaper) Ascension Lutheran Church in Kimball has installed its first resident minister. The congregation, which today has twenty-five members, was begun as a mission church… 

“Part of the problem . . .” No doubt you too have read lately about the formation of another “branch” (synod?) within Lutheranism. We speak of a group or association calling itself “Lutheran Congregations in… 

Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy name; Thy kingdom come; Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven; Give us this day our daily bread; And forgive us our…