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Rev. Terry Goerz, Redeemer Lutheran Church. Paul tells us, “Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” (Romans 12: 2) I would like to explain this transformation. For…

Rev. Terry Goerz,Redeemer Lutheran Church. We are told in 2 Corinthians 5, “God gave us the ministry of reconciliation” and “God has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making His…

Rev. Terry Goerz,Redeemer Lutheran Church. Now, as I said in my previous column on Oct. 1, what happens to the saved is radically different from what happens to the unsaved. What happens to the saved after their spirit separates from…

Pastor Matthew Peters,High Prairie Bethel Baptist Church. Is Christianity a “white man’s religion” as some have asserted? No! Jesus Himself wasn’t even white. He was a Jew. Is it therefore a Jewish religion? No! It comes from the Jews but…

Rev. Terry Goerz,Redeemer Lutheran Church. I ended my last column Sept. 17 writing, “So we are dead, what happens next?” The Bible classifies the whole human race into two broad categories – the saved and the unsaved or the lost.…

Rev. Terry Goerz,Redeemer Lutheran Church. I will be writing about death and what happens after we die. It is not a topic that can be covered in one article, so the subject will be covered in three articles. First, What…

Rev. Terry Goerz,Redeemer Lutheran Church. Let me start with a piece of trivia! About 600 years ago England’s graveyards were filling up, so it was decided to reuse the graves. As they dug up the old coffins they discovered scratch…

Pastor Matthew Peters,High Prairie Bethel Baptist Church. The substitutionary atonement of Christ means that Christ died as a substitute for the sin of mankind and bore the wrath and curse of God towards that sin. It was necessary for Him…

Rev. Terry Goerz,Redeemer Lutheran Church. In our lives, as Christians, we need to stop and consider often the values we place on things. When we look back at our life from our death bed, what was really important? Would anyone…

Rev. Terry Goerz,Redeemer Lutheran Church. Paul is ministering in Ephesus when he is brought a report that there are divisions in the church in Corinth where he had ministered for a year and a half at the urging of Christ.…

Pastor Matthew Peters,High Prairie Bethel Baptist Church. “You can’t tell me what to do!” Well, I certainly can, but that doesn’t mean you’ll listen. Nor does it mean you should. It depends on our relationship and what I’m saying. In…

Rev. Terry Goerz,Redeemer Lutheran Church. Jesus said, “The Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests and teachers of the law, and He must be killed and on the third day be raised…