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Photographs on Monday, July 11, 2022, at the 2022 LCMS Youth Gathering in Houston. LCMS Communications/Erik M. Lunsford
Why Memorize When You Can Just Google It?
With the internet at our fingertips, we easily come to rely on it for everything. But what is lost when we outsource our memory?

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World-Peace
“Every civilized man wants peace.” What peace does the world so earnestly desire? The peace that comes from ...
‘If We Are Faithless …’
We’ve all certainly heard of “eleventh-hour conversions” ... Would this have been the opposite? Eleventh-hour wavering? Deathbed doubt?
Funerals Have Changed
More than 25 years ago, a funeral was simply a funeral; they were all the same. The visitation happened at the funeral home ...
Book Review: ‘Overcoming Life’s Sorrows’ by R. Reed Lessing
Despite our best efforts to avoid them, pain and suffering appear in our lives. Lessing reminds us: “Exile doesn't negate God's promises."
God Bless You
I don’t know why I thought I’d be able to mediate the heated dispute between two neighbors on the jogging trail that day.
The Ballad of Baby Peach
When we welcome the three-legged chickens, we very often find ourselves surprised and delighted by the ways God blesses our lives.
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