If there is a God, why do bad things keep happening? There is no shortage of evil in the world in which we live! Mass shootings, murder-suicides, drugs, rape… and the list goes on. Two friends, one an unbeliever and the other a Christian, were enjoying their morning coffee together. They began to discuss the…
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This world is filled with shiny things. Things that are designed to catch our eye and demand our attention. All it takes is a quick look around your daily life to realize that these things work. Commercials, end-cap displays, billboards, and pop-up ads don’t ask to be looked at – their ability to capture our…
August Comes. “It’s hot.” “I’m bored.” “There’s nothing to do.” “How come we never do anything fun?” Maybe that’s right after we got back from vacation, having broken the bank to go to the amusement park. Maybe the kids had a meltdown with the Mickey ears on, right in the middle of the midway. We…
July comes. Good times. Our minds turn to vacations and cookouts and beach trips and fun in the sun. The best of times. Do the best times, though, bring out the best in us? Experience teaches that sometimes the easier we have it the harder it is for us to deal with life. Think of…
Are you familiar with Lady Macbeth? She is one of the main characters in Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth. Desiring to be “Queen Macbeth,” she becomes obsessed with gaining power. She connives and sets things up so that there would be opportunity to get rid of King Duncan so that her husband could then become king. When…
“Looks like you have a case of the Mondays!” Some people really loathe Mondays. The weekend is over. A stressful, long week lies ahead. For many people, it is rather depressing to wake up on a Monday morning. Maybe it’s not Monday mornings for you, but you can probably relate to this feeling. Haven’t there…
Question: Why should a person be a Christian and not a Muslim, Buddhist, or a follower of another religion? Answer: Because Christianity is true. Our society today struggles with this answer. It views all religions as basically the same and therefore as different perspectives of the truth. This view of world religions cannot be true.…
The Oak Island lighthouse is the brightest lighthouse in the United States. Its beam is rated at 14 million candlepower. It can be seen for over 20 miles out to sea. Sailors moving up and down the coast by that lighthouse are warned of danger, but they’re also shown something else. Each lighthouse has a…
So often when life-changing incidents take place as, for example, when a family member is diagnosed with cancer, the patient as well as other involved family members many times become frustrated and begin to question God. “Why me?” “Why, God? Why my wife, why my son or daughter?” “What have I done to deserve this?”…
A blessed Founders’ Day to you all! Today we observed the celebration of the centennial of the reorganization of our Synod. Congregations all over our synod participated using Bugenhagen’s order of service, readings and a sermon likely based on the first president, Pastor Bjug Harstad’s original sermon from 1918, and the showing of this documentary…