(…continued) When you want to get someone to do what you want them to do, you can try and find ways to get power over them. But that is not the only way. You can also use ‘authority.’ There is a difference between power and authority. Those words can be defined in different […]
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Todd and Maggie had a big fight and broke up. Todd, as always, had not been treating her very well, and Maggie told him she wanted to call it quits. Todd wanted to get back together, but he wasn’t about to apologize, so he tried a different tactic. He asked out Ellen, Maggie’s
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Pictured above: Abraham Lincoln’s Triumphant Visit to Richmond ——————————————– On April 9, 1865 Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to the Union forces General Ulysses S. Grant, thus ending the Civil War and the most terrible four years of American history. It was Palm Sunday. Earlier that week, Monday, April 3rd,
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Sir William Mitchell Ramsay (1851-1939) was a British archeologist and New Testament scholar. He was the foremost authority of his day on the history of Asia Minor, and a leading scholar in the study of the New Testament. He taught at Oxford and the University of Aberdeen. He was knighted in 1906
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(…continued) Yesterday’s EmailMeditation told the story of Don and Carol Richardson’s mission work among the Sawi people of New Guinea. It is one of the most amazing stories in the history of missions. My brief account only begins to describe this powerful work of the Holy Spirit. Today’s blog consists of three videos
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I completed my seminary education in December of 1979 and was ready for my first congregation. I was called to Christ Lutheran Church in Lignite, North Dakota. Lignite is in the far northwest corner of that wind-blown, barren state. On a windy, 30 degree below zero day in January, my wife and I
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(continued…) Secondly, very few would accuse Jesus of lying, but to call the miraculous accounts in the Gospels ‘Legends,’ is to accuse somebody else of lying. If Jesus did not heal the sick, feed the 5,000, calm the storm, raise the dead, and rise from the dead himself, others must have added that
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Thomas Jefferson cut verses from six copies of the New Testament as he worked to create his own personal version. The above photo is of one of the copies he used in his cut and paste system. ————————————– (…continued) We now get to the most commonly accepted option of who Jesus was, again beginning
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(…continued) Was Jesus a LIAR? (see previous meditation) There are several ways to rule out this option. First of all, let’s go back to the Minnesota State Fair. The strange man does have your interest now, though you still think he is probably a fake. But he is getting a
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Above right: An AI generated image of Jesus using the image on the Shroud of Turin (on left). The Shroud has not been proven to be authentic, but neither has it been proven to be a fake. It is an extremely interesting item that has undergone extensive examination by experts in many fields. *************************************
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