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If I were to say to you, “Oh, now I think you’re just trying to justify what you did,” would you take that as a compliment? Would that be a good thing, that you’re trying to justify yourself? No, probably not. In our language today, in our culture, the word justify has the connotation of making some kind of excuse for something…
Download Life Guide It has been called our theme song, our mission statement, and even our “battle hymn.” (Although I have to say that last one may be a little dramatic.) Many times I have heard people say things like that about Hymn 293 in our hymnal, “God’s Word is our Great Heritage.” Reflecting on our Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS) many…
Download Life Guide “Choose a job you love and you will never work a day in your life.” That is the old statement from Confucius, a Chinese philosopher that lived about 500 years before Christ. “Choose a job you love.” That is something that is hard for many of us to do, isn’t it? We choose a job that we THINK we…
Download Life Guide Dad is dying. It’s cancer. The doctors have done everything they can, but it looks like he only has a few months to live. The family believes in God. They pray confidently every day because they know who God is and what he has the power to do. “God…we need a miracle. Please heal our Dad. Please, save his…
Download Life Guide Today is an interesting day here at church. Today marks the beginning of our observance of a new season of the church year we call Epiphany. Epiphany actually began this past Wednesday. 12 days after Christmas every year… for centuries… the Christian Church has remembered how the Magi came from a foreign land to worship Jesus who was only…
Download Life Guide The past couple of weeks have been very busy for Michael Ringelsten. Who’s Michael Ringelsten you ask? He’s a guy who runs a massive operation outside of Chicago where he buys literally truckloads filled with returned merchandise that was ordered online… and he takes it and with an army of employees sorts through and then resells it all online…
Download Life Guide Christmas is a time for family, isn’t it? With Christmas Eve and Christmas Day a few days in the rearview, you’ve probably already spent time with extended family at holiday parties. For many people, that makes Christmas a wonderful time of year! They love getting together with family; catching up and reminiscing about the past; stuffing their faces at…
How often through the years I’ve imagined the scene of Christ’s birth – the dingy stable, the lowly manger, the swaddling clothes, Mary and Joseph and the shepherds. It is all quite a sight. But I must confess that seldom, if ever have I tried to picture the scene from the Christ-child’s point of view. Oh, I know, he was only a…
Can I ask you, what are you doing here today? I mean, you didn’t have anything better to do today? Got all your shopping done, so you had an hour to kill, so you thought you’d hang out at church? Nothing else going on tonight? Nothing to prepare for tomorrow? And even if all those things were true, why did you pick…