The Helper Who Never Leaves
In this world we often suffer the pain of separation from loved ones. No one is exempt from this pain. We recently read an article telling about the mourning of Queen Victoria when her husband…
Announcements
Correction Most likely our subscribers noticed the mislabeling on the cover of last month’s issue. Volume 43, Number 9 should, of course, have been designated for the month of March, not May. Our apologies for…
FROM A PASTOR’S DESK . . .
A(NOTHER) MOVIE TO AVOID Most Hollywood-produced movies today are not worth seeing because they promote behavior such as obscenity, violence, immorality, and a variety of other anti-Christian actions, ideas, and attitudes. Now comes a movie…
The last of three devotions on . . .
THE BEST WAY TO DIE Take yet another look at the cross–the best way for Jesus to die, and the best way for you to die–and to go on dying, as Galatians 5:24 shows: “Those…
A Christian’s Scriptural Response to the World of 2000 . . .
FACING HOMOSEXUALITY (Part 4 of 5) In part three of this series we saw the variety of ways in which great effort is being made to make the sin of homosexuality acceptable. These efforts are…
THE WORSHIP SERVICE
“Oh come, let us worship and bow down; Let us kneel before the LORD our Maker.” Psalm 95:6 Fourth in a Series– The Amen and the Confession of Sins Amen Amen is a common expression…
LESSONS FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT
“That We Might Have Hope” (Rom. 15:4) First Kings, Chapters Twelve through Fourteen The Divided Kingdom While I was preparing to write this article on the dividing of the kingdom of God’s people in the…
Easter With An Exclamation Point!
What a world of difference a simple punctuation mark can make. It can be the difference between disappointment and delight. For instance, one man realizes that he has gone as far as he will ever…
WHAT WONDROUS LOVE IN TAKING BACK HIS LIFE
St. Matthew’s account of the Easter story What gracious, wondrous love is this, my soul? The tomb that held the body of our Lord Was open, empty, that first Easter morn. Is this a trick,…
Appreciating Our Lutheran Hymns
Come, Ye Faithful, Raise the Strain An Easter Hymn #204 in The Lutheran Hymnal This Easter hymn is based on the Song of Moses in Exodus 15. As he contemplates the resurrection of Christ, the…