By Eric Burgdorf, Pastor at Hope Free Lutheran Church, Wyoming, Minnesota, 2011 Easter newsletter message (edited).    I like being at home.  There is a certain amount of predictability. I know where my toothbrush is and where the box of cereal is. I can walk from room to room on autopilot. I know where […]
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Luke 15:1-2  —  Now the tax collectors and sinners were all gathering around to hear Jesus.  But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law muttered, “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.” ****************************************    (…continued)  You may not be in the category of Mrs. Finney’s vicious neighbor Fred or Louie the murderer.  So
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   Mrs. Finney stood on her front yard and watched the undertaker drive off with the dead body of her long time neighbor Fred.  He had been ill the last several weeks, and the hospice nurse said he died in his sleep.     “It’s just not fair,” Mrs. Finney said to her
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   (…continued)  Well, Jesus should have said that sooner.  We know that each person is important.     But do we?    A while back I was listening to the Minnesota news on WCCO radio.  The first story was that the police were releasing the name of the person whose body was discovered
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Above: The Lost Coin, Eugene Burnand  (1850-1921) —————————   I heard this story from someone who said it actually happened to him.  He was in a grocery store, in line behind a lady who was a champion coupon clipper.  She turned in a handful of coupons to be subtracted from her bill.
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 Posted at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution website on Saturday, March 30, 2013, by Shelia M. Poole; with additional notes from and article posted as http://www.cbn.com ——————————– Billy Neal Moore spent 16 years on death row for killing a man. Today, he is an ordained minister who speaks to inmates about an act of forgiveness that saved his life.
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Adapted from The Word for Every Day, by Alvin Rogness, page 219, Augsburg Publishing House.    The psalmist says, “A thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday” (Psalm 90:4).  God is not harried by the clock.  He can wait. One would think that a God who designed the universe to function with
By Randy Alcorn (pictured above with his daughter Angela), November 6, 2015 blog at:  www.epm.org    Some years ago, I sat with my daughters at a father/daughter banquet at our church.  Someone at the table asked my youngest daughter, Angela, what I’d done that made the biggest impression on her.  I had no idea
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Martin Bucer (1491-1551) was a German Protestant reformer. Â He often played the role of mediator between different factions of the reformers, a task that led to great frustration and limited success. Â He spent the last two years of his life in England where he assisted Thomas Cranmer in the revision of The Book of Common
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Painting above: Feast in the House of Simon the Pharisee, Peter Paul Rubens, 1619 ———- LUKE 7:36-50:    When one of the Pharisees invited Jesus to have dinner with him, he went to the Pharisee’s house and reclined at the table.  A woman in that town who lived a sinful life learned that Jesus
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