Category: Presidential Perspectives
Not Embarrassing but Amazing
by Glenn E. Schaeffer When I was pastor at Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd in Barrie, Ontario, the children and youth, with the assistance of some adults, presented a Christmas pageant entitled, “This is So Embarrassing!” The pageant starts with a youth complaining about…
Light in the Darkness
by Paul Zabel I was born and grew up in Detroit, Michigan. During my “formative years” my family attended and were members of Holy Cross Lutheran Church located at Grand River and Whitcomb on what is known as the West side of Detroit. I and…
The Sin of Pride
by Thomas Prachar In his book Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis devotes a section to Christian behaviour. One chapter of this section is entitled “The Great Sin.” He writes: “There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which everyone in the…
Richer at the End of Each and Every Day
by Paul Zabel “Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that has it: but the correction of fools is their folly. The heart of the wise instructs his mouth, and adds learning to his lips” (Proverbs 16: 22-23). Every Fall, thousands upon thousands of…
God’s Word at Work
by Glenn E. Schaeffer The genius of Martin Luther was his recognition that there was only one way the Spirit of the Lord would reform, renew, and revive a lifeless, stagnant church and that was to get Jesus’ followers to read, study, inwardly digest, and…
Praying Towards “Reformation 500”
by Robert Bugbee Soon it will be Reformation Day 2016. That marks 499 years since the moment when a little-known German monk, Martin Luther, posted his 95 Theses on the door of Wittenberg’s Castle Church. They were a public appeal to discuss and debate. Those…
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