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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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The law and gospel of chicken dinners
What does the Bible say about people and animals?
Happy birthday to someone else
When we’re staring at a pile of blessings next door, we miss the ones in front of us.
A note to parents with wiggly children
“Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven” (Matt. 19:14).
Celebrating our dependence
God did not create us for independence or autonomy. His freedom is not the same as the world’s “freedom.”
A God of acts and facts
Of the 52 Sundays in the Church Year, only Trinity Sunday commemorates a doctrine rather than an event.
From whom I learned it
My parents have lived in the same house since they got married in 1984. I have my passport number memorized. But where it counts, I ...
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