Tag: Fall 2017 | Current

No Fake News

Post author By Ian Goligher
Post date October 8, 2017

Fake news is the latest in sensational journalism, deliberately designed to mislead. The media may say they fact-check their news stories, but often put so much “spin” on them they are capable of turning black to white, or white to black. To gain instant advertising dollars, tech savvy manipulators have…

Post author By Jason Boyle
Post date October 7, 2017

Rev. Jason Boyle is a born missionary, and one of our own seminary grads now ministering the gospel in Mexico City, the fifth largest city in the world by population. While his church is but a dot on the city’s map, it has made its mark in reaching the people…

Post author By Reggie Cranston
Post date October 6, 2017

landscape photography of person's hand in front of sun

“Stay with me, I cannot bear to be left alone. O Lord help me, what have I done to suffer so much? What will become of me hereafter? No, don’t leave me, stay with me. Send even a child to stay with me, for I am on the edge of…

Post author By The Editor
Post date October 5, 2017

When Playmobil produced a Martin Luther figurine to commemorate the Reformation, the German manufacturer could not keep this new toy on the shelves. Dressed in sixteenth century academic robes, replete with cap, scroll and quill, and holding a copy of his New Testament in German, the figurine had a first…

Post author By The Editor
Post date October 4, 2017

The Place: Worms, Germany The Date: April 18, 1521 Luther’s Opponent: Dr. John Eck, Archbishop of Trier (not to be confused with the Dr. Eck of Ingolstadt, who debated Luther at Leipzig). The Main Issue: The pope sent a letter to German officials issuing a bull of excommunication against Martin…

Post author By The Editor
Post date October 3, 2017

In 1516, Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam, Holland made a tremendous contribution to the Christian religion by publishing the Greek text of the New Testament. This caused many to say, “Erasmus laid the egg which Luther hatched.” Although Erasmus was “the Prince of the humanists” in Europe, he was still a…

Post author By The Editor
Post date October 2, 2017

This year we have been learning about Martin Luther, the German reformer. Five hundred years ago he protested against the errors of the Roman Catholic church, which had rejected the truths of the Bible. Luther was a very strong man to stand up for the Lord against so many enemies…

Post author By The Editor
Post date October 1, 2017

As a young child, I enjoyed sitting on the porch and listening to my grandfather sing the old hymns. He led the singing at a small, country church, and sometimes he would ask me to play the piano. I learned many hymns at an early age, but did not fully…

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