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Save Your People, and Bless Your Heritage
by Mathew Block “Oh, save Your people and bless Your heritage! Be their shepherd and carry them forever.” – Psalm 28:9 This is a passage of Scripture that I meditate upon frequently, but it has been especially in my mind recently as the result of…
Gladiator II – Retrograde Heroism: From Virtue to Vice
by Ted Giese Gladiator II is set about around the year 200 A.D., around twenty years after the events of 2000’s Gladiator. Director Ridley Scott again gives audiences a man with a secret past and a dead wife travelling on a grief-stricken path of vengeance…
Blessing a home
by David Haberstock “The times they are a-changin’.” Over the last 20 years, most every pastor has had people come with complaints of strange phenomena occurring in their home, especially at night. It seems since the advent of Rationalism and the scientific method, we all…
Then With Shepherds Let Us Go
by Timothy Teuscher In the familiar account of the nativity of our Lord from St. Luke’s Gospel, we come across a number of individuals. First and foremost, of course, is the “Babe lying in a manger” (Luke 2:7), our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. Then…
Do You Have a “Cookie God”?
by Marvin Bublitz It’s that time of year when many homes are filled with the aromas of the season. I remember being a child when both our house and Grandma Schmidt’s house were filled with the wonderful aroma of baking. Mom would usually include us…
So Great a Cloud of Witnesses
by Robert Mohns The West Region of Lutheran Church–Canada is composed of 115 congregations, with roughly 30 (about 25 percent) vacant. About half of those are in the process of calling a pastor; the other half are, for various reasons, not calling. In an average…
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