Savior Or Slogan?
The beginnings of the new professional football season are underway. Soon enough, fans across the world will excitedly greet the much anticipated TV commercials of Super Bowl Sunday. Each company will spend millions of dollars…
Savior Or Slogan?
Chapel Talk, Immanuel High School, Mankato, Minn.–
Lessons From A Sports Saying A volleyball team I saw had the saying “there is no I in team” printed on their warm-up shirts. What they meant by this was that selfishness is not part…
Lent Is The Signal For Victory
There’s a story about Christians in a cell awaiting their doom — to be fed to hungry lions. With only minutes left to live, they sing joyful hymns! A Roman guard pokes his head into…
THE RIGHT SCENT
I have an old shepherd in my congregation. He and his wife spent their younger years tending sheep out on the rolling prairies of eastern Montana. When I stop in for visits they often speak…
Announcements
Colloquy Rev. Kevin McKenney, formerly a clergyman in the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod, now a member of Messiah in Hales Corners, Wis., has applied for colloquy with the desire to serve in the ministry of…
CLC EXPLORATORY SERVICES
LOCATION PASTOR IN CHARGE LAY PERSON TO CONTACT ———————————————————————– Arizona, Gold Canyon Warren Fanning Gerald Gehling 602-983-8518 602-983-9052 California, Stockton Michael Sprengeler 510-886-3252 Colorado, Colorado Springs Delwyn Maas Chuck Seelye 303-278-7216 or 719-685-5848 800-777-4316 (statewide,Peter…
(The following article is by Cara MacDonald, writer for The Morning
Star newspaper of Vernon, British Columbia. It first appeared June 29, 1997. Used by permission. The picture is a recent family photo.) Building a New Church David Reim is the first pastor of the new…
Leland L. Grams 1919 – 1997
Once a young pastor, discouraged by the burdens of the ministry, asked an older, more experienced fellow-pastor if he ever felt like quitting. Leland Grams replied, “No, except for every day!” There was a twinkle…
NOTE: This material was originally prepared for a tract at the request
of the Pacific Coast Pastoral Conference, October 1997. Part One appeared last month. “THE MILLENNIUM” –Let’s Enjoy It Now! (Part 2) What would this divinely controlled period (of the “millennium”) be? What would be its…
Reformation Vignettes
4. LUTHER AS HYMNIST “Praise the LORD! Sing to the LORD a new song, and His praise in the congregation of the saints.” — Psalm 149:1 There is no question about it, Martin Luther is…