The Importance of possessing a Guilty Conscience

TO READ IN BOOK FORMAT, OR TO PRINT THIS ARTICLE, CLICK ON THIS LINK – 13-The-Importance-of-possessing-a-guilty-   Psalm 51:10-12:  “Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me!  Do not cast me away from your presence, and do not take your Holy Spirit from me!  Restore to me the joy…

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A Sermon in Memory of Paul Edward Kretzmann

TO READ IN BOOK FORMAT, OR TO PRINT THIS ARTICL, CLICK ON THIS LINK – 14-A-Sermon-in-memory-of-P-E-Kretzmann   Psalm 112:6:  The righteous will be in everlasting remembrance. Following Scripture, a genuine Lutheran congregation will not give extraordinary exaltation to its departed members by eulogizing them at their funerals, for instance, or much worse, by praying to them…

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A Fourth of July Sermon

TO READ IN BOOK FORMAT, OR TO PRINT THIS ARTICLE, CLICK ON THIS LINK – 15-A-4th-of-july-Sermon- Jeremiah 29:7:  Seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray to the Lord for it; for in its peace you will have peace! Until rather late in the history of…

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The Lord defends a powerless Nation

TO READ IN BOOK FORMAT, OR TO PRINT THIS ARTICLE, CLICK ON THIS LINK – 16-The-Lord-defends-a-powerless-Nation-Jehosaphat   2nd Chronicles 19:4-20:32 About nine hundred years before the birth at Bethlehem of Jesus Christ, mankind’s Savior and God, there lived a king by the name of Jehoshaphat.  His capital was Jerusalem.  Spiritually, he was a believer in the…

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