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In our Advent services this year we have been focusing on the three ingredients which Martin Luther said that God uses to grow theologians. Those three ingredients, or three disciplines, if you will, are: meditation, prayer and testing. Or as they are sometimes called by their Latin names: Meditatio, Oratio and Tenatio. (Wait a minute.…
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You’re as cuddly as a cactus and as charming as an eel. You’re a bad banana with a greasy black peel. You’re a monster, Mr. Grinch. This time of year you hear a lot about Dr. Seuss’s Mr. Grinch. On the outside he looked quite ready for Christmas. He wore a Santa hat. He had…
Download Life Guide “Drug overdoses and suicides caused drop in 2017 life expectancy.” “Christian missionary murdered in India.” “Camp Fire is deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California history.” “12 dead in Thousand Oaks shooting.” “7.0 magnitude earthquake rocks Alaska.” When you hear another day’s headlines that sound like this– natural disasters, war, division, persecution,…
Download Life Guide Today I’d like to begin with a quiz. Can anybody identify this man? Raise your hand if you can tell me who this is. Let me give you a hint. His name is Bhomibol Adulyadej (pronounced Pooh me pon Ah doon yah day). Still don’t know who it is? Don’t feel bad.…
Download Life Guide The End!? 1 Thessalonians 4:13–18 Brothers, we do not want you to be ignorant about those who fall asleep, or to grieve like the rest of men, who have no hope. 14 We believe that Jesus died and rose again and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who…
Download Life Guide Every so often, sometimes once or twice in a lifetime, a person gets to be a part of something really big. Something that kind of lifts our sights above the ordinary routine of life. Something that allows us to somehow serve a greater good. Something that we could not do by…
Download Life Guide The Reformation was 500 years ago. Was it easier to be a Christian in 1518 or right now? They had no Bible and one church that said the only way to heaven is to obey all the rules. We are so busy that it’s hard to find time to read our Bibles…
Download Life Guide “Zank, you’re in the game. Tell the quarterback: Right 46, tight end quick slant, on two.” This was my big chance to impress Coach Ambrosino. I was a Junior at D.C. Everest High School and a tight end on our varsity football team. Not only was the coach putting me in…
Download Life Guide The year was 1986. The place, Mequon Wisconsin. The event, call day at Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary. My bride-to-be and I sat in the auditorium waiting to hear where in the world I would be assigned to begin my career in the Pastoral Ministry. As you might expect, there were some nervous jitters. Finally my name was called. Robert Raasch,…