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Fruitful Death
Verily, verily, I say unto you.” “Verily, verily!” Here Christ would instruct His disciples, but the matter is hard. The mind does not understand it when the heart does not receive it. However, the truth does not change. “Verily, verily, I say unto you.”“Except a corn ...
The Names of the Mediator (4)
Branch““Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, thou, and thy fellows that sit before thee: for they are men wondered at: for, behold, I will bring forth My Servant theBRANCH ...
Philip’s Request
John 14 leads our thoughts to the Easter room in Jerusalem. There we meet Christ in the circle of His disciples. It is the night in which He will be betrayed and over which the shadows of suffering fall; they lead toward Calvary with the Surety. While His heart and thoughts are focused ...
Every Time That Name…
Pilate—every time during these Passion weeks you hear his name. “Suffered under Pontius Pilate; was crucified”—it sounds even every Sunday evening from the Apostolic Creed in Article 4 of the twelve. It is the second name of a human being mentioned in this summary ...
A Timely Letter
Dear Church Members,The world that we live in is rapidly becoming hostile to the commandments of the Lord. The pressure to murder children in the womb, and the killing of the elderly or disabled under the guise of euthanasia or assisted suicide is greatly increasing. ...
On the Begging List
My dear child, I was very glad to find by your last letter, that you were on the begging list. God never had, nor ever will have, one soul on His begging list but will overcome all his enemies and shout, “Victory at last.”Poor Jacob, when Esau was coming to meet him w ...
Beware of Evil Friends
Man is a social being. God made him so. “It is not good for man to be alone” applies also in this broader sense. The average man does not like to be alone. To be “forsaken” is to be cursed. Men have gone insane in the loneliness of their cabins in the frozen wastes of the northland, fa ...
Time to Clean Your Smartphone
Every number of years, usually when your closet or drawers are overflowing, you realize that you need to clean out your closet. It is generally easy to start—you can quickly identify the pairs of clothes you no longer wear because they do not fit or you do not like them anymore. Howeve ...
Evening Twilight (4)
The Fig Tree Withered“And when He saw a fig tree in the way, He came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. And presently the fig tree withered ...
Curatorium Announcement
The Lord willing, the Curatorium hopes to convene on Wednesday, June 5, in Grand Rapids at the Beckwith NRC church. The purpose of this meeting is to hear men who may have received an attest from their consistory pertaining to a calling to the sacred ministry of Word and sacrament. We ...
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