Category: Columns

December 8, 2022

Your Word Leaped from Heaven

by Mathew Block “While gentle silence enveloped all things, and night in its swift course was now half gone, Your all-powerful Word leaped from heaven, from the royal throne…” — Wisdom 18:14-15 This passage, taken from one of the books of the Apocrypha, is one…

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November 21, 2022

Black Adam: Triumphantly Average

by Ted Giese Black Adam is a DC film that tells the story of a modern-day return of a virtually indestructible champion Teth-Adam (Dwayne Johnson). Teth-Adam had been entombed for five thousand years following an ancient conflict with a tyrannical king, Anh-Kot, over the control…

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November 17, 2022

Always at work for you and in you

by Marvin Bublitz Many kids are returning to school as I write this, and I just watched a group walk past the house to catch the bus. It made me think back to my school days, certain memories that always seem to come back to…

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November 7, 2022

We Value Unity

by Timothy Teuscher “We value unity in doctrine, proclamation, and practice, as expressed in Scripture and the Lutheran Confessions.” That is the third value statement identified by a vast majority of pastors, deacons, and lay people from across our synod as part of the Strategic…

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November 1, 2022

Water and the Word

by David Haberstock This summer I was honoured to serve as the chaplain for the 2022 National Youth Gathering under the theme “In Not Of,” based on Philippians 3:20: “But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Saviour, the Lord Jesus…

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October 26, 2022

Beyond this World’s View

by Robert Mohns “I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better. But to remain in the flesh is more necessary on your account” (Philippians 1:23-24). For quite some time now, Paul’s opening…

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