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Certainty in the Unknown

Download Life Guide Is there a more annoying customer service phrase than, “Your repairman will arrive sometime between the hours of 8am and 4pm”? Whether it’s the plumber coming to fix your sink, the cable guy coming to install your cable, or the dishwasher repairman coming to unshackle you from the nightmare of handwashing your dishes, a vague, unknown arrival time is…

How Do You See Jesus?

Download Life Guide Last week Tuesday, our nation went to the polls to elect the next president of the United States. And when the results were announced, half of our nation went into celebration, and half went into shock. Half saw the election as a tremendous victory and half saw it as a crushing defeat. Many saw the winning candidate is the…

Stand Firm in Christ

Download Life Guide How would you describe color to a person born blind so that they could understand? Have you ever wondered about that? If a person had never seen any colors how on earth could you help them to even begin to understand what they looked like? Well… this past week I went to the place where answers are found –…

How Could a Loving God Send People to Hell?

Download Life Guide Last year, the Pew Research Group conducted a two question poll: “Do you believe in Heaven?” and “Do you believe in Hell?” 72% said they believed in Heaven, but only 58% of those same people believed in hell. Why the 14% discrepancy? People want their life to go well, so it’s not surprising that people tailor their beliefs so…

A First Commandment Faith

Download Life Guide Today, we’ll be taking a Catechism pop quiz. Maybe some of you had an anxious flashback from adolescence. But don’t worry, this quiz won’t be graded. It will be important for your faith, though. I’ll give you some examples, and you tell me if they broke the First Commandment. If you don’t remember, God’s First Commandment for us is,…

Christian, Don’t Give Up!

Download Life Guide    When introducing his study of the Lord’s Prayer, Martin Luther writes: “Our Father in heaven. What does this mean? With these words God tenderly invites us to believe that he is our true Father and that we are his true children, so that we may pray to him as boldly and confidently as dear children ask their dear…

Great are the Works of the Lord

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…

Whose Slave Are You?

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…