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…...

44+ 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…...

51+ 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,…...

1+ hour, 43+ 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,…...

21+ hour, 8+ min ago   (253+ words) A groundbreaking ceremony for the Colorado Springs Colorado Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was held on Saturday, September 12, 2026. Elder Karl D. Hirst of the United States Central Area Presidency presided over the event. “The temple is…...

3+ hour, 8+ min ago   (747+ words) Rabbi Neil Amswych, Mayor Michael Garcia and City Councilor Jamie Cassutt during an Aug. 8 party celebrating Temple Beth Shalom's 70th anniversary. The folks who established Santa Fe's first Jewish temple might be called pragmatists: The modest synagogue they built on East…...

3+ hour, 23+ min ago   (490+ words) Let’s look at this Gospel in four movements. I. THE PRESENTATION OF THE PROBLEM – The text says, Peter approached Jesus and asked him, “Lord, if my brother sins against me, how often must I forgive? As many as seven times?...

3+ hour, 35+ 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…...

2+ hour, 39+ 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…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (299+ words) This message was clear but I strongly disagree with the appeal. I have never believed that prayers alone could change our nations or every nation destiny. Yes, prayers are powerful, but expecting God to fix our human negligence while we…...