Category: Columns

August 3, 2020

Greyhound: Heavy Action, Light Characters, and the Lutheran Connection

by Ted Giese Greyhound, Tom Hanks’ adaptation of the 1955 C.S. Forester novel The Good Shepherd, was set to sail into theatres June 12,, 2020, and then pushed back to June 21. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic it was finally launched into the seas of…

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June 22, 2020

I need God with a Face

  by Robert Mohns Many of our days are spent in the routines of life according to our various vocations. We are husbands and wives. We are fathers and mothers. We have families to care for. We work, we study, we play. We worship, we…

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June 15, 2020

A Letter from LCC’s President to Our Pastors: Concerning the Service of the Sacrament

June 9, 2020             Dear Brothers and Fellow Workers in the Gospel, In my last letter I focused on a few things that the Holy Scriptures and our Lutheran Confessions have to say about the physical assembly or gathering of…

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June 12, 2020

Godly Rituals

  by David Haberstock A few Sundays ago I was one of five people present at my local church for the live-streaming of the service. I helped lead and support the singing with my voice and a keyboard. Afterward, in an extremely socially distanced fashion,…

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June 9, 2020

For us and for our salvation

by Marvin Bublitz “And behold, there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled back the stone and sat on it.” – Matthew 28:2 Why did the angel roll the stone away from the tomb? Ponder…

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June 8, 2020

Seeing Jesus

by Mathew Block “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.” – John…

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