“The Hiding Place” by Corrie ten Boom: A Lesson in Forgiveness and Matthew 18:21-35 Greetings, dear members of Redeemer of Interlochen! As we have set up (or really reset) our Library at Redeemer I will be writing you periodically to share books that for me have been “Chisel Books,” that is to say books that […]
The eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil. 1 Peter 3:12. Inscribe this verse upon your heart in firm faith and see if it does not bring you peace and blessings. Try to believe that […]
Seems like a simple question. Though it is a questions that we continually come to incorrect conclusions about. One reason for this is at the center of christianity, at the center of a christian life you find the chief principal has nothing to do with you doing anything and is focused on you simply being. […]
“I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. 12I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. 13I can do […]
Habakkuk 3:17 Though the fig tree may not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines… and the fields yield no food; though the flock may be cut off from the fold, and there be no herds in the stalls. Psalm 126:5 Those who sow in tears. Matthew 5:11 Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and […]
Job 14:7 “For there is hope for a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its shoots will not cease. 8 Though its root grow old in the earth, and its stump die in the soil, 9 yet at the scent of water it will bud and put out branches […]
(A few thoughts from Rev. Dr. Ryan Tinetti, Trinity Arcadia, forwarded to our congregation by Pastor Jason Bauer.) All the pastors around the table were thinking the same thing.I recently had the opportunity to get together with some fellow brothers in ministry and to break bread together—the first time doing so in months. The time […]
Christians can sometimes forget that the events that mark the beginning of their faith occurred within the context of real history. As we enter into the season of Lent we will consider the events that founded our faith. Here are some indisputable facts surrounding the advent of our faith. Something happened in the Middle East […]
Ireland’s patron saint escaped slavery and returned to convert the Emerald Isle. St. Patrick did not banish the snakes from Ireland. After the last Ice Age, snakes never returned to the Emerald Isle. Neither is there proof that Patrick used the three-leaf shamrock to impart the doctrine of the Trinity to the 5th-century pagan Irish. […]
We as Lutheran Christians rightly understand that a person is born sinful. This is something that the Scriptures clearly teach, Ps 51:5, Romans 5:12, Eph 4:22 just to cite a few. When one considers what sin and evil is though, one confronts a more difficult question. The theologian John Stott, called sin and evil selfishness. […]