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  I have always been intrigued by the dedication of missionaries of the 19th century. When they left their home for another country it usually meant they were never coming back. That reminds me of the conversation between a chicken and a pig: The Chicken says: “Hey Pig, I was thinking we should open a…

“But eagerly desire the greater gifts. And now I will show you the most excellent way. Paul writes to the conflicted church in Corinth that he “planted” several years earlier… If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal….

According to my count “hell” or “hades” is mentioned 21 times in the New Testament. The Apostles’ Creed also states that “Christ descended into hell” or at least it used to say that. The newer translation says, “he descended into the dead.” We Lutheran’s don’t like to talk about hell. It is like the elephant…

Last Sunday we heard the story of Jesus coming to Jerusalem. Jesus didn’t live in Jerusalem, but he spent the final week of his life in the capital city of Israel. It was customary to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem to celebrate the Passover during the time of Jesus. Passover is the primary covenant between…

I ran across this article today from a website called gravityleadership.com. It was so good, I wanted to share it with you… One of the most difficult aspects of Christianity for me to embrace and practice has been the whole evangelism thing. Evangelism just doesn’t feel natural to a lot of us. It’s like evangelism is…

The fundamentalist Christian movement began in the 1920’s as a hedge against modernism. This movement is characterized by a strict belief in the literal interpretation of scripture. Often the modernism that is rejected among fundamentalist relates to science (e.g. evolutionary theory and the age of the universe), music that is not specifically Christian and a negative…