Category: Columns
The Father Directs Our Speaking
by Marvin Bublitz When I was a very young boy, my brother and I were having a sibling discussion in the yard, and I said some things in a way I should not have. Suddenly, I heard my father’s voice through the open living…
Spiritual Warfare
by David Haberstock A while ago, I was reading the Introduction to Luther’s Large Catechism and found much wisdom and encouragement there. The recent lockdowns have been a time of great anxiety and frustration. Stuck in our houses, cut off from family, friends, congregation,…
You’re Grounded!
by Robert Mohns “You’re grounded!” “That’s the worst word ever invented,” retorted the teenager, slamming the bedroom door. For young people, the word “grounded” always seems to have a negative meaning. After one hundred days of mandated social isolation and being locked inside our…
Together, One
by Mathew Block “For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves…
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…
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…