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Don Heller listens during preaching at Divine Service on Sunday, April 14, 2024, at Epiphany Lutheran Church in Bastrop, Texas. LCMS Communications/Erik M. Lunsford
Even to Old Age and Gray Hairs: The Meaning of Life at Every Age
When a man is young, he may feel like he can take on the world. Each day seems to open up to countless blessings. For many elderly Christians, however, life feels like a burden rather than a blessing. Thankfully, our Lord does not leave us without hope in our weakness. His Word declares His unwavering ...

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On a Lucas Cranach Portrait
Through Cranach's portraits of Johann Friedrich I over his life, we see the life of Christian suffering depicted.
Marriage and the Gift of Dying to Self
Marriage is not a curse to avoid or put off for a better time. It is a gift that creates a husband and wife and ...
Our Great Heritage: Bernard of Clairvaux
Though not without error in his life and teaching, this French abbot loved Christ, and his confession of faith rings down through the ages.
Fiction as a Means of Grace?
Good fiction can place the reader into the story in a way that history or news or even systematic theology cannot.
On ‘Anna Karenina’: A prescient critique of sexual disorder
Although he wrote long before the Sexual Revolution, Tolstoy anticipates the tragic effects of such an ethic on human life.
Our Great Heritage: Boniface of Mainz
As missionary to the Germans, he boldly confessed Christ as Lord and paved the way for Christianity to spread through Europe and beyond.
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