(continued…) The next day one of the nurses saw her pastor who was visiting one of his parishioners in the same hospital. She asked if he would stop in to see the woman, and he agreed to do so. He went into her room and introduced himself and asked if she wanted […]
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I heard this story from another Lutheran pastor. I will tell it as I remember it, filling in the conversation a bit as I go– but this was the gist of it. A middle-aged woman was dying of cancer in a big city hospital. She received no visitors, and she was not accepting
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From The Word for Every Day, by Alvin Rogness, page 63, © 1981 Augsburg Publishing House Let me say at the outset that I don’t always feel the need to repent and be forgiven. I believe I need to be; I know I do, because the Scriptures say very clearly that I do.
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By John Stonestreet, June 24, 2014, at: www.breakpoint.org Adriaan Vlok (1937- ) Between 1986 and 1991, Adriaan Vlok served as South Africa’s Apartheid-era Minister of Law & Order and also sat on South Africa’s State Security Council. Vlok was behind many of the regime’s most repressive and drastic measures: hit
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By Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), written in 1886 And he said unto Jesus, “Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy Kingdom.“ And Jesus said unto him, “Verily I say unto thee, today shalt thou be with me in paradise.” –Luke 23:42, 43 There was once a man who lived for seventy years in the
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From “No Road to Respectability” by Eric Metaxas at <www.Breakpoint.org> July 31, 2013 How is it that disgraced politicians keep popping back into public life without much trouble? As I record this, former congressman Anthony Weiner is staying in the race for mayor of New York. In case you forgot,
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I heard this story from Lutheran pastor and seminary professor James Nestingen. I will tell it as I remember it, filling in the conversation a bit as I go– but this was the gist of it. A middle-aged woman was dying of cancer in a big city hospital. She received no
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