1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (221+ words) The parishioners and friends of St. Luke’s Evangelical Lutheran Church will celebrate the church’s sesquicentennial anniversary with a church service at 11 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 20. The celebration coincides with Freeland’s 150th celebration this year. The actual anniversary date is June 25, 1876. On…...

42+ min ago   (631+ words) Realize that you cannot make decisions. Don’t resent it, because it is Truth. It is the first intuitive knowledge that you have ever had in your life; it has nothing to do with empirical learning, but discovering another way of…...

49+ min ago   (213+ words) Mar Mari Emmanuel preaches Christ crucified and rejects “faith alone.” He calls salvation a “working faith”: the blood of Jesus is claimed through baptism, the Eucharist, and obedience to the commandments. He denies once-saved-always-saved and teaches I have been saved,…...

3+ hour, 25+ min ago   (966+ words) Even congregations uninvolved in the court cases say they’re still feeling the repercussions of the weekslong surge in immigration operations last winter. Protesters confronted federal law enforcement daily, and the killing of two protesters sparked global outcry. Immigration agents are…...

1+ hour, 41+ min ago   (1087+ words) By Dr. John Bergsma The Readings for this Lord’s Day are unified around the theme of forgiveness. We begin and end with the words of “Jesus” on this topic: the First Reading records the words of Jesus, son of Sira,…...

3+ hour, 6+ min ago   (1933+ words) Illustration of King David weeping over the death of his son Absalom who was killed in battle. Image source unknown – appears to be AI generated. Last week I released the Second Edition of my eBook, The Concept of the American…...

4+ hour ago   (107+ words) President John Dramani Mahama has said taxpayers’ money should not be used to fund the construction of a National Cathedral, arguing that the Christian...

3+ hour, 33+ min ago   (323+ words) Whose approval shapes our lives? We may seek recognition from family, appreciation at work, or admiration on social media. These desires are understandable. Yet when pleasing others becomes our highest aim, we can lose the courage to do what is…...

3+ hour, 37+ min ago   (333+ words) To aid his devotee’s progress, a teacher sends him to stay with a simple family. It is rumoured in the neighbourhood that God himself stays with the humble occupants of this thatch roof dwelling. The devotee spends a day with…...

2+ hour, 37+ min ago   (785+ words) We often project later experiences back into history, consciously or unconsciously assuming an inevitability to what finally occurred. However, history is complex and, what now seems inevitable, did not always look that way in the past. The distribution of forms…...