One of the most rewarding and encouraging means of mission outreach conducted last year by our mission church, Ascension Lutheran, was their Vacation Bible School. Since the Community Center, which is used for worship, also… 

This year was the first ever VBS at the Church of the Lutheran Confession in North Port, Florida. The teachers were Judy Stewart, Guilda Mitchell, Dorothy Garcia, and Pastor Stewart. Our congregation is made up… 

The marvelous ability of all living things to reproduce themselves after their kind is one of the most distinctive properties of life. This reproductive ability depends in part on a vast collection of precise genetic… 

From June 1965: How Every Christian Serves His Country When Christians get to feel the world’s hostility — the “hatred” that Jesus said should not amaze us — they are often tempted to withdraw. The… 

A word of clarification perhaps needs to be given regarding violence, and even murder, at abortion clinics by pro-life activists. No, we are not for it! In “The Diary of a Fetus” in our January… 

“Fools mock at sin, but among the upright there is favor” (Prov. 14:9). There is much mocking of sin these days. It is the subject of jokes for stand-up comedians. Sins are spoken of as… 

Studies in Second Corinthians The Paradox Of The Gospel Ministry But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us. (We are) hard… 

Those readers who never experience difficulty in initiating a discussion about our Savior with strangers sitting next to them on the plane, or with unbelievers working at their side or even sharing their home may… 

Or do we? How often do we use the word “implore” anymore? “Implore” seems to fall into a category with ideas like “appeal”, “beg”, “petition”, — all of which suggest that the implorer/appellant/ beggar/petitioner is…