Category Archives: wisdom

How Should Parents Deal With Rebellious Adult Children?

Chris Braun the author of the recently published book Unpacking Forgiveness writes about how to deal with a wayward child: Pray and ask others to pray.  Support your church if it works through church discipline with one of your children.  … Continue reading

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An Advent Meditation

Christine Sine at Godspace Blog created this Advent Meditation and accompanying video- Enjoy!   In this Advent season we await the coming of Christ Child of promise come, Revealer of God come, Bringer of life come, Come to the beaten … Continue reading

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How the World Rewards Service

At One Lutheran…Ablog! I came across this quote from Martin Luther: Don’t ever expect the world to acknowledge or reward your faithfulness and hard work. The opposite often happens, as Joseph’s life shows. Therefore, make sure that you direct your … Continue reading

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Why are we so drawn to excellence?

Why are we so drawn to excellence? At first glance this might seem like an odd question. Why would we not be drawn to excellence? It’s almost like asking why a man would be attracted to a woman. It’s just … Continue reading

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The Power of Preaching the Gospel

Here we…see the power of this preaching of the Gospel. Beyond all the might and power of the world and of all creatures, Christ proves His ability to draw the hearts of men to Himself through the Word alone and … Continue reading

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Christ will give you Himself….

“I am not coming with a health, wealth and prosperity gospel, or on a health, wealth and prosperity mission. I am not bringing the message that Christ will make you healthy, Christ will make you wealthy, Christ will make you … Continue reading

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His Forever .. a free song that praises Jesus Christ the friend of sinners

I came across a very encouraging song that reminds us that Jesus is a friend of Sinners: The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax … Continue reading

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A prayer for election day

O omnipotent, eternal, and merciful God, Lord of hosts, You remove kings and set up kings. All powers in heaven and on earth are from You. In heaven, the angels worship You, archangels praise You, thrones revere You. Governing authorities … Continue reading

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All Saints Day

Readings for All Saints Day Revelation 7:9-17 Psalm 34 Matthew 5:1-12 A Prayer for All Saints Day Gracious Father, on this holy day you brought forth Your Son, Jesus Christ, from the dead. With joy we remember His victory over … Continue reading

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Rising Conflict in a Falling Economy – A Practical Christian Response by Ken Sande, president of Peacemaker Ministries

The economy is crumbling. Investments are withering. Fear is mounting. But you don’t have to sit there feeling helpless—there is something you can do to turn our country’s financial crisis into a life-changing investment opportunity. Financial Crises Trigger Relational Crisis … Continue reading

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Jesus..The Sinner’s Friend

Matthew 11:19 As soon as Jesus Christ, being born in the likeness of sinful flesh, has come to years of maturity, and has commenced his real life-work, he at once discloses his friendship for sinners by associating with them. You … Continue reading

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How to Love Difficult People

Throughout the last several weeks we’ve been focusing our attention on what it means to be the kind of peacemakers that Jesus frees us up to be. A big part of our focus in this area has to do with … Continue reading

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We have come among the people to talk about Jesus Christ..

"The word sinner is a theological designation. It is essential to insist on this. It is not a moralistic judgment. It is not a word that places humans somewhere along a continuum ranging from angel to ape, assessing them as … Continue reading

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Jesus Christ brings us grace and peace…..and makes us strong, brave, and humble

The following devotion is from a book entitled  Five minutes a Day with Luther. You can download a free copy of this book in PDF format or order a hard cover version by clicking HERE. This selection reminds us that … Continue reading

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So pastor ….. how can I apply the Bible to my life?

  Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. And whatever you do, in word or deed, … Continue reading

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