Download Life Guide If you woke up today with only the things you thanked God for yesterday… what would your life look like? I thought about that this week and was amazed at all of the blessings I take for granted. Physical blessings like health, family, friends, food, clothing, safety… and the more important – eternal blessings of peace with God, sins…
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Sermons on Sundays After Pentecost (Page 32)
Download Life Guide Back in the day, when I was in high school, we called it “Initiation.” It was the time-honored tradition of breaking in the new crop of freshman. At Martin Luther Academy, where I went to High School, freshmen were called Fuchses, and for the first week of the school year, we dressed up the fuchses, and marched them around…
Download Life Guide This past week I spent some time on YouTube in my office watching videos (not the normal cat-videos I usually watch… just kidding J) – – I was watching a bunch of different videos where a person would interview random folks on the street. And in all of the different ones I watched the question was pretty much the…
Download Life Guide A question for you. Do you think it’s wrong for a Christian to buy a lottery ticket? I’m not asking, “Do you think it’s a good investment? Or do you think you have a good chance of winning it all?” I’m asking, “Is it wrong for a Christian to purchase a chance to become a millionaire?” I’d love to…
Download Life Guide Can you remember the first time you had your heart broken? For those of you who are still kind of young maybe that hasn’t happened yet… But I’m talking about a time when someone you loved did something that completely destroyed a relationship with you. A friend who stabbed you in the back and never spoke to you again……
Download Life Guide “How much will this cost me?” As cost-conscious consumers, you probably ask, or at least think that question often. Whether it’s waiting for car repairs, wheeling an overflowing cart to the Festival checkout line, or hearing your daughter say, “I need a new dress for homecoming,” we’re almost constantly asking, “How much will this cost me?” But knowing the…
Have you ever been to a nice dinner where someone made things really… really… awkward? Maybe the way they were dressed, what they were saying, how they were acting… it just made everyone uneasy…? Now, while that’s not a whole lot of fun to deal with… have you ever stopped to consider that sometimes being put in those awkward spots is really…
Tell me, have you ever thought to yourself, “I wonder, out of all the people in the world today, how many will actually end up in heaven someday? Out of all the people sitting in Christian churches, how many of them are actually Christians? Out of all those who say they believe in God, how many of them will God actually acknowledge…
As a history nerd, I’ve always found the American Civil War fascinating. For me, one of the most intriguing aspects is the many personal relationships between the Union and Confederate armies. There are many stories of father-in-law fighting against son-in-law. Men who stood in each other’s weddings, standing as enemies on the battlefield. Former classmates or colleagues turned foes. Even brother against…
This weekend at Mount Olive we are welcoming in two new teachers who will be serving in our grade school. Nicole Beglinger and Amy Cain were trained at our college of ministry in New Ulm, they’ve taught in a number of schools in our Synod, and they bring that training and experience with them as they begin their work here among us.…