Category: Columns
The message from a Chilean mine rescue
by Rich Docekal It was a message from hell. It was hell. It felt, looked, tasted, and smelled like every hell I’ve ever imagined. That was what all the news reporters said. Over, and over since August 5th, I’ve been hearing about how terrible life…
You’re not in this alone
by Peggy Pedersen Psalm 31: 1-5 1 In you, O LORD, have I taken refuge; let me never be put to shame; deliver me in your righteousness. 2 Incline your ear to me; make haste to deliver me. 3 Be my strong rock, a castle…
Got a light?
by Ian Adnams On Sunday our congregation’s worship service focused on the work of Lutheran Women’s Missionary League-Canada. We used the organizations convention theme “Shine like stars.” Maybe the word ‘stars’ put my mind in an astrophysics mode, but during the sermon our pastor talked…
How tolerant are Christians?
by Michael Keith In a speech responding to a pending Koran burning by a pastor in Florida, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said: “My God and my Christ is a tolerant God, and that’s what we want to see in this world.” What does tolerant mean?…
Worry is like a rocking chair
“Cast all your anxiety on Him because He cares for you” (1 Peter 5:7). Periodically the accumulation of trash and unused items in our basement must be cleared away. Boxes that might be useful, scraps of lumber from handyman projects, and bags of outgrown clothing…
Ponderings from the president
The night of Halloween 2001, the mayor of Inglis, Florida (a town of 1200 people, north of Tampa) decided to take action. The town had been experiencing a tougher-than-normal year with an increase in crime, drug abuse and general lawlessness, especially among its younger citizens….