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I am in the midst of reading a very interesting book called "The Hammer of God" by Bo Giertz. I am in the first part of the book (the book is in three parts) dealing with a man who is on his death bed and a young pastor who is ministering… Continue

Ok, so I promised another blog post a few weeks ago, but then just forgot about it. I wanted to continue blogging about my use of the Romans Bible study in the Book of Faith series, so here we go.

The first class, I really tried to keep us on course with the materials. I will say, originally I thought there was not enough materials to fill up and hour and a half Bible study, but wow! We did not get through half of the materials because our discussion was so great. We spent a lot of time on the… Continue

When was the last time you heard about Satan in a sermon in a Lutheran church? It might be a regionalism, but I wonder how much Lutherans talk about Satan. If I do a sermon on Satan, it maybe happens once every two or three years. As pointed out in the book “Salvation on the Small Screen?” watch TBN and you hear Satan’s name regularly. Go to a Pentecostal church and you just might hear Satan’s name more than Jesus’. So, why are Lutherans afraid to talk about Satan?

I remember when I was learnin… Continue

For the last few days, I have been reading Richard Dawkins’ book “The God Delusion.” It is not a new book, but it is one that I decided to read to challenge myself. What is funny that as I am reading it, I am agreeing with some of his arguments. Now before someone accuses me of having a crisis of faith, let me explain what I mean.

For those who don’t know, “The God Delusion” is a book about disproving the existence of God, using traditional arguments for God’s existence and breaking those argum… Continue

“Please don’t tweet the next thing I am about to say,” said the speaker at a gathering I recently attended. The statement wasn’t controversial, it wasn’t political, and it wasn’t even that shocking. But, it was a statement that when it was taken out of context of the topic being discussed could have been interpreted incorrectly. Many of us in that gathering followed the request of the speaker, one person didn’t. It was on Facebook right there in print attributed to the person that said it and co… Continue