Download Life Guide How would you describe color to a person born blind so that they could understand? Have you ever wondered about that? If a person had never seen any colors how on earth could you help them to even begin to understand what they looked like? Well… this past week I went to […]
Download Life Guide Last year, the Pew Research Group conducted a two question poll: “Do you believe in Heaven?” and “Do you believe in Hell?” 72% said they believed in Heaven, but only 58% of those same people believed in hell. Why the 14% discrepancy? People want their life to go well, so it’s not […]
Download Life Guide Dear fellow children of the Reformation: 3400 years ago an 80 year old man armed with a wooden staff stood on the banks of the Red Sea with water in front of him and an army behind him. The Israelites and the promised of the line of the Savior were threatened by […]
Download Life Guide Today, we’ll be taking a Catechism pop quiz. Maybe some of you had an anxious flashback from adolescence. But don’t worry, this quiz won’t be graded. It will be important for your faith, though. I’ll give you some examples, and you tell me if they broke the First Commandment. If you don’t […]
Download Life Guide When introducing his study of the Lord’s Prayer, Martin Luther writes: “Our Father in heaven. What does this mean? With these words God tenderly invites us to believe that he is our true Father and that we are his true children, so that we may pray to him as boldly and […]
Download Life Guide If you woke up today with only the things you thanked God for yesterday… what would your life look like? I thought about that this week and was amazed at all of the blessings I take for granted. Physical blessings like health, family, friends, food, clothing, safety… and the more important – […]
Download Life Guide Back in the day, when I was in high school, we called it “Initiation.” It was the time-honored tradition of breaking in the new crop of freshman. At Martin Luther Academy, where I went to High School, freshmen were called Fuchses, and for the first week of the school year, we dressed […]
Download Life Guide This past week I spent some time on YouTube in my office watching videos (not the normal cat-videos I usually watch… just kidding J) – – I was watching a bunch of different videos where a person would interview random folks on the street. And in all of the different ones I […]
Download Life Guide A question for you. Do you think it’s wrong for a Christian to buy a lottery ticket? I’m not asking, “Do you think it’s a good investment? Or do you think you have a good chance of winning it all?” I’m asking, “Is it wrong for a Christian to purchase a chance […]
Download Life Guide Can you remember the first time you had your heart broken? For those of you who are still kind of young maybe that hasn’t happened yet… But I’m talking about a time when someone you loved did something that completely destroyed a relationship with you. A friend who stabbed you in the […]