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I will be back soon. Thank you for reading. Pastor Leon Stier

By Philip Yancey, posted October 22, 2020, at: www.philipyancey.com Again and again this year, scenes of racial injustice have played out before our eyes. African Americans insist that such incidents…

"What to Do When Jesus is Too Late to Help" by Joshua Rogers, posted November 2, 2020, at www.joshuarogers.com There’s a line of an old Southern Gospel song I’ve been…

Harold Kushner (1935), When All You Ever Wanted Isn’t Enough, 1986, pages 22, 23…59:      America's Declaration of Independence guarantees every one of us the right to the pursuit of…

By Johann Gerhard (1582-1637), a German Lutheran pastor and professor of theology.  He wrote dozens of books, including Sacred Meditations, a collection of 51 meditations published in 1606.  This piece was…

 Martin Luther (1483-1546), at the age of 43 --------------------    (…continued)  But one piece of Luther’s work is still read by millions– his Small Catechism.  Luther would have approved of this wide…

Martin Luther  (1483-1546) ————       The husband and wife team of Will and Ariel Durant made it their life’s work to write the history of the whole world,…

“We should devote 364 days a year to being thankful and set aside only one day for grumbling and complaining.” ————————      Fulton Ousler (1893-1952) was a journalist, author…

Selections from The Clergy of America: Anecdotes, (1869)      I was once called upon, says the Rev. Trefit, some years ago, to visit an individual, a part of whose face had been…