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Decided I'd rather not leave this posted here. Thanks to staff for helping me!

"What if you woke up today with only the things you thanked God for yesterday?"

For our mutual edification and comfort, here are a few deeply profound little words: Jesus loves me, this I know For the Bible tells me so. Little ones to Him belong. They are weak, but He is strong. Yes, Jesus loves me! Yes, Jesus loves me! Yes, Jesus loves me! The Bible tells me so...

Jesus talks a lot about bearing fruit. I think in my American (and formerly non-denom evangelical) mindset, I've somehow always equated that with producing some kind of a visible, tangible impact on others. (I struggle with a very performance-oriented approach to things, in general.) I was just...

Since things are a bit slow around here lately, I thought it might be fun to do a little icebreaker-type thing. So tell us all something unusual or odd about you or your life.

There are no words to express my dismay: Hundreds of Churches Using 'New' Ten Commandments Rewritten by Popular Pastor, Christian News

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I thought I would share this Luther quote with you all, because I needed to hear and absorb it better, and I thought it would do me some good to type it out. I hope it's helpful to someone else. I found it in the devotional book Faith Alone, a Daily Devotional which contains selections from...

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A number of us have custom user-titles under our user names that I've wondered about. So what prompted yours, or what does it mean? Mine says, "Sigo avanzando hacia la meta." It's the Spanish version of the first part of Phil. 3:14 "I press on toward the goal" [for the prize of the upward call...

President Obama's administration is declaring war on religious liberty by requiring religious organizations to pay for healthcare coverage for their employees which MUST include free contraceptives and pills that induce abortions -- even if those religious organizations believe those things to...

I'm guessing most of you have seen the excellent and very funny Lutheran Satire videos on youtube. So which are your favorites? Here are two of mine: (Be sure to watch all the way to the end...there's more after the credits.) Your Friends and Neighbors: Kenny the Sacramentarian...

Today I've been reading both Luther's Heidelberg Disputation (1518) and his Treatise on Good Works (1520). I'm wondering if someone more knowledgeable on the subject can shed some light on these for me. My initial impression is that Luther seems to make a dramatic shift between the Disputation...

Below is a copy of the text of a petition I recently signed. The goal is to require Cosmopolitan magazine to be displayed in an opaque wrapper, and sold only to those over 18 years of age. I don't often sign petitions, but I thought this one was worth supporting. Cosmo has become an open...

Since there are still a few more days left in the Christmas season, and since the rest of the culture has (sadly) left Christmas far behind already, I thought it would be a good time for a Christmas-themed question. What's your favorite Christmas hymn, and why? I like "Of the Father's Love...

Okay, in the spirit of kooky threads to which GT is so prone, I thought I'd start one. The first person who can tell me where in the scriptures God made a covenant with my two cats (Mimi and Belle) will get 100,000 blessings from me. (Hint: It is a real covenant, and it is described in...

This is a fascinating story: Shocking photo created a hero, but not to his family - CNN.com Wow.

Our culture is completely saturated with the idea that there is not just one truth, but that in the realm of truth, anything goes. Whatever is true to you...whatever "works" for you is good. We have come to the point in our culture where this idea has entered the church of Jesus Christ. In many...

Blessed Maundy Thursday, dear friends! May Christ be with us all as we begin our remembrance of our Lord's passion today with the celebration of His institution of Holy Communion. Blessings in Christ to all.

Deleted my post. Decided there was too much potential for trouble. Sorry. [Edit: Gradually got drawn into it anyway. See posts 24 and following for the issue the original, deleted OP addressed.]