Month: January 2016

By the reign of His humanity or (as the Apostle says) His flesh, which takes place in faith, He conforms us to Himself and crucibles us, making genuine men, that is wretches and sinners, out of unhappy and haughty gods. For...

Instead of prayer, more and more of us are turning to another “P” – psychiatry.  There is an interesting article in one of my journals that talks about an “epidemic of psychological and psychiatric...

I had a strange experience the other day as the year turned over.  I was signing up for a “Vitality for Today” app suggested by Health Care and Ancillary Products from Concordia Heath Care (one of the ways that our...

The Lessons from last Sunday from 1 Kings 3:4-15; Ephesians 1:3-14; Luke 2:40-52 are really about the dominion of God and fearing, loving and trusting in God above all things.  Jesus in the temple as a young boy needed to be in...

This rather plaintive update from The New York Times – A century ago, the world’s tallest building was the Woolworth Building in Lower Manhattan, at 60 stories and a height of 792 feet. Today it’s the 163-story, 2,717-foot...