Choices, choices and AdChoices. Our hyper-consumer culture overwhelms us with all the choices we can make to please our whims. For all the hyper-individually focused advertising that is pushed at…
If there ever will be a time when that old adage will be proven true, it will be with the ELCA’s thirty-five-member Commission for a Renewed Lutheran Church. This commission…
I recently attended a traditional worship service where the emotional and spiritual highlight for me was the opening and closing hymns. This was not because the sermon message was subpar…
“And the fourth angel poured out his bowl upon the sun, and it was given power to scorch people with fire” (Revelation 16:8). What will it take? I have seen…
“And I heard the altar saying, “Yes, Lord God, the Almighty, true and righteous are Your judgments” (Revelation 16:7). True are the judgements of the Lord. The opposite is also…
“And I heard the angel of the waters saying, “Righteous are You, the One who is and who was, O Holy One, because You judged these things; for they poured…
“Then the third angel poured out his bowl into the rivers and the springs of waters; and they became blood” (Revelation 16:4). From the oceans, up through the rivers and…
“The second angel poured out his bowl into the sea, and it became blood like that of a dead man; and every living thing in the sea died” (Revelation 16:3).…