May Briefing 2024
Privacy?
Pilot Knob Lutheran Privacy? 5/1/2024 America is losing her privacy through the advancement of technology. Technology makes it possible to ‘spy’ on individuals, collect personal information and be recorded in many places while in public not to mention who is watching us through home security cameras. If you have an Alexa device has it […]
Fifth Sunday of Easter
“I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.” -Theodore Roosevelt
Wipe Out Israel
Considering recent events in Israel, Iran’s attack with missiles, drones and ballistic missiles, Psalm 83 comes to mind. It is a psalm of national lament in which the author, Asaph, prays for the LORD to intervene against her enemies.
Fourth Sunday of Easter
We must have the courage to both engage the culture and stand against it. -Erwin W. Lutzer
Before the Storm
We are entering the time of year known as tornado season. Tornadoes bring much damage, fear, and disrupt the normal routine of a heathy life. Even if a tornado doesn’t visit your town, severe storms can have similar results.
Third Sunday of Easter
Truth does not mind being questioned. A lie does not like being challenged.
Strength for Today
I want us to step into the shoes of another person and look at their world through their eyes. This unnamed individual has little or no religious education; there is no God, or at best one that is absent and unknown. The world came into existence through blind chance as did all life. It has no purpose and history is simply repeating itself. Life consists of doing the best you can, doing what good you can for others and at the end of life you cease to exist.
Second Sunday of Easter
Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.
God is Merciful
God Is Merciful. Sometimes I forget, Lord, that You are merciful, offering pardon instead of just condemnation. Therefore the Lord is waiting to show you mercy, and is rising up to show you compassion, for the Lord is a just God. All who wait patiently for him are happy. (Isa. 30:18)