Category: Presidential Perspectives

September 21, 2010

Worry is like a rocking chair

“Cast all your anxiety on Him because He cares for you” (1 Peter 5:7). Periodically the accumulation of trash and unused items in our basement must be cleared away. Boxes that might be useful, scraps of lumber from handyman projects, and bags of outgrown clothing…

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September 17, 2010

Ponderings from the president

The night of Halloween 2001, the mayor of Inglis, Florida (a town of 1200 people, north of Tampa) decided to take action. The town had been experiencing a tougher-than-normal year with an increase in crime, drug abuse and general lawlessness, especially among its younger citizens….

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September 17, 2010

From the President

In its recent bailout package, the United States committed to helping faltering industries to the tune of more than 1 trillion dollars. A trillion dollars! I’ve never been able to wrap my head around what a billion is, let alone a trillion. To help put…

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September 10, 2010

Where youth ministry begins

For some 25 years I had the privilege of teaching confirmation classes in churches I served as a pastor. If you ask what the single most potent “ingredient” was in the students who seemed successful in those classes and went on to be fruitful young…

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December 24, 2009

The world needs the Good News the Lord has entrusted to us

A CHRISTMAS MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF SYNOD TO THE PASTORS AND PEOPLE OF LUTHERAN CHURCH-CANADA Treasured friends in Christ Jesus: In His kindness God is giving us one more opportunity to hear the news flash from Bethlehem, that the Rescuer of the human race…

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October 30, 2009

Guilt, justice and the power of forgiveness

by Robert Bugbee Our evangelical Lutheran church was started in the strangest way. It didn’t begin at a conference table or by decree of a high-placed cleric. It began with a monk, agonizing with his face down on the stone floor of a monastery cell….

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