Give thanks “with heart and hands and voices”
Thanksgiving is so much more than a holiday. It involves our whole life. Martin Rinckart described this nicely in his familiar hymn: “Now thank we all our God With heart and hands and voices” (TLH…
Announcements
CLC Teachers’ Conference Place: Immanuel Lutheran School, Mankato, Minnesota Time: Wednesday-Friday, October 13-15, 1999, beginning at 10:00 a.m. Program: * A study of Proverbs and applications for living today — Pastor Wayne Eichstadt * Is…
40th Anniversary Celebration–
Gethsemane Ev. Lutheran Church Saginaw, Michigan Gethsemane Ev. Lutheran Church was organized on November 5, 1959 by members who had left the WELS, under the leadership of Pastor Otto J. Eckert, because of the false…
Ninth In A Series (from an essay by Pastor Thomas Schuetze) —
Psalm 129 “LORD, thank You for saving me from my enemies.” A Psalm of Thanks Psalm 129 “Many a time they have afflicted me from my youth.” Let Israel now say–“Many a time they have…
SMORGASBORD
* ‘EMBARRASSING KANSAS’ An editorial so titled appeared in the August 16, 1999 Corpus Christi (Texas) Caller-Times. A subtitle comes closer to identifying the supposed source of “embarrassment” for the state of Kansas: “Students will…
Biblical Perspectives On The End Times
Third in a series THE KINGDOM Sin’s Pollution Created in the image of God, but losing that image and being expelled from Paradise, meant that each person would be born in sin, would sin, and…
LESSONS FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT
“That We Might Have Hope” (Rom. 15:4) First Samuel Chapter Seventeen David And Goliath Everyone is familiar with the Bible account found in 1 Samuel 17. It is the narrative of David and Goliath. We…
Appreciating Our Lutheran Hymns
A Mighty Fortress Is Our God A Hymn for Reformation #262 in The Lutheran Hymnal Both under King Saul and as king himself, David experienced some amazingly great military feats, many of them against extremely…
A Man Who Shocked The World
In the Fall of 1998 a political dark horse from the Reform Party, a man by the name of Jesse Ventura, came onto the scene of Minnesota politics and, as he said, “shocked the world.”…
A Reformation Message from our CLC President–
“The Reformation was about a return to Scripture and the authority of the Word of God. By its actions over the last years ELCA is turning the calendar back to pre-Reformation times. . . .…