In Vietnam, a platoon of Alpha Company got into firefight just south of the DMZ. Some of the new men were blasting away with their weapons on full automatic. A Staff Sergeant stood up in the midst of the firefight, walked from hole to hole calming his troops, putting their weapons on semi. As he […]Read more
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Me a saint? You have to be kidding. God knows all of my faults and failures? And, if I can't remember them all, my wife can complete the list. Yet St. Paul can refer to us as those called to be saints. How can this be?President Franklin Roosevelt began a speech to the Daughters of […]Read more
- 01 November, 2015
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For Lutherans, Halloween is a significant holiday. It was on the Hallowed Evening before All Saints' Day in 1517 that an Augustinian monk named Martin Luther nailed a parchment of 95 debate proposals to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany. This event sparked a Reformation over long-simmering Read more
- 25 October, 2015
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Harder for a rich man to get into heaven than to squeeze a camel through the eye of a needle? That was the Lord’s comment to his disciples when a rich young man couldn’t turn loose of his possessions. Was the Lord against wealth, or did he have something entirely different in mind?Read more
- 18 October, 2015
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