Category: Columns

August 9, 2021

Back to Basics

by Mathew Block My wife and I have recently been planning out the next school year for our kids, and reflecting on how we will integrate Luther’s Small Catechism into our children’s education. As I look through the catechism again—with eyes towards instructing someone else…

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July 12, 2021

The Call Process as Gift

  by David Haberstock I grew up in a parsonage. I had one pastor until I became a pastor. I had never attended a call meeting before becoming a Regional Pastor. Beyond what the Bible says about “the call,” I knew little about it. So,…

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July 7, 2021

Saint and Sinner in Disney’s Cruella

by Ted Giese In Disney’s new movie Cruella, Estella/Cruella is an orphan girl with a split personality—one half kind, the other half cruel. While on the run she falls in with a pair of pick-pocketing Dickensian grifters, Jasper and Horace, and eventually pursues her lifelong…

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June 29, 2021

Forgiven

by Robert Mohns Forgiven. There is no sweeter word given by God to fallen, broken people than that! In this world of cultural upheaval, accentuated by COVID hyper-anxiety and our propensity to travel down a myriad of rabbit holes that lead us into a plethora…

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June 17, 2021

For all the saints, who from their labours rest

by Marvin Bublitz I am writing this near the end of April. The latter half of April is a time of mixed feelings for me. It is this time of year during which the Lord called from this world many saints whom He placed in…

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June 16, 2021

COVID-19 and Masks

by Timothy Teuscher “The world is like a drunken peasant. If you lift him into the saddle on one side, he will fall off on the other side.” This rather blunt, earthly statement by Martin Luther is a fitting assessment of some of the comments…

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