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Question Box: What About Bullies?
Introduction Holy Cross Lutheran Church offers individuals the chance to ask questions about the Church, faith, theology, and the Bible by putting their queries into a Question Box. A question and answer appears in each month’s newsletter. This is the November 2010 installment. Question How should a Christian respond to a bully? Answer That’s a…
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In the Meantime: All Good Gifts
Introduction This article is the November 2010 installment of my monthly message in the parish newsletter for Holy Cross Lutheran Church, Beatrice, Neb. Message All Good Gifts An old and familiar hymn leads us to sing a refrain together: All good gifts around us Are sent from heav’n above. Then thank the Lord, oh, thank…
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There Is Our Help
Introduction The Congregation Council at Holy Cross Lutheran Church, Beatrice, Neb., where I am serving as interim pastor, opens its monthly meetings with devotions. These are the thoughts for the October 2010 meeting. The Psalm is the one appointed for Sunday, Oct. 17, the Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost. The council reads it antiphonally in choirs.…
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Laborers for the Harvest
Introduction One of the opportunities I have as the interim pastor at Holy Cross Lutheran Church, Beatrice, Neb., is to prepare a short column for a feature called “The Pastor’s Pen,” appearing in the Beatrice Daily Sun on Thursday, October 7, 2010. Scripture “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore ask the…
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Question Box: “He descended into hell.”
Introduction Holy Cross Lutheran Church offers individuals the chance to ask questions about the Church, faith, theology, and the Bible by putting their queries into a Question Box. A question and answer appears in each month’s newsletter. This is the October 2010 installment. Question When we confess our faith using the Apostles’ Creed, I’m not…
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In the Meantime: Walk in His Ways
Introduction This article is the October 2010 installment of my monthly message in the parish newsletter for Holy Cross Lutheran Church, Beatrice, Neb. Message Walk in His Ways If you take your dog for a walk along the same route each morning, you can grow blind, after a while, to the details along the way.…
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Making an Honest Confession
Introduction The Congregation Council at Holy Cross Lutheran Church, Beatrice, Neb., where I am serving as interim pastor, opens its monthly meetings with devotions. These are the thoughts for the September 2010 meeting. The Psalm is the one appointed for the sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost. The council read it antiphonally in choirs. Invocation In the…
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Most Holy Father…
Introduction Bishop Carol Hendrix invited me to introduce a hymn, “My Life Flows On in Endless Song,” and to lead the 2010 Lutheran CORE Convocation in prayer to begin its session on Friday, Aug. 27, 2010, the session in which the delegates voted to establish the North American Lutheran Church. Prayer Most holy Father, You…
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In the Meantime: The Holy Cross
Introduction This article is the September 2010 installment of my monthly message in the parish newsletter for Holy Cross Lutheran Church, Beatrice, Neb. Message The Holy Cross One of the handy features on the ELCA’s Web site is a “Find a Congregation” page. A little searching there led me to know that within the ELCA,…
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Question Box: Abortion and Responsibility
Introduction Holy Cross Lutheran Church offers individuals the chance to ask questions about the Church, faith, theology, and the Bible by putting their queries into a Question Box. A question and answer appears in each month’s newsletter. This is the September 2010 installment. Question The ELCA has a provision in its employee health plan that…