Once the endless meetings, insulting slurs, character attacks, hurt feelings, and procedural difficulties involved in leaving one ecclesial community and entering another are over, the remaining congregation members are often…
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“What do you want to be when you grow up?” It's a question that youth have been asked since they graduated kindergarten. But in high school, the question becomes a…
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Many of you know that I write intercessory prayers that are posted on the Lutheran CORE website and sent to many individual pastors and congregations. I’ve done this for over…
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 Editor's Note: The Rev. Dr. Steven K. Gjerde is a former VP of Lutheran CORE. “The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.” So says our Lord Jesus…
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“For we have been consumed by Your anger and by Your wrath we have been dismayed. You have placed our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of…
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Tuesday, December 26, 2017 Devotion “Hear my voice, O God, in my complaint; preserve my life from dread of the enemy.  Hide me from the secret counsel of evildoers, from…
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Tuesday, December 5, 2017 Devotion “But as for me, I shall sing of Your strength; yes, I shall joyfully sing of Your lovingkindness in the morning, for You have been…
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“Let them be as a snail which melts away as it goes along, like the miscarriages of a woman which never see the sun.  Before your pots can feel the…
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FIRST WORDS AND FINAL WORDS Devotional for Christ the King Sunday, November 26, 2017 based upon Matthew 25: 31-46 I retired on June 30, 2014, after serving as pastor of…
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“They attack, they lurk, they watch my steps, as they have waited to take my life.  Because of wickedness, cast them forth, in anger put down the peoples, O God!”…
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