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As I go through old blog posts waiting for Anne and the kids to arrive for the midweek Lenten feast, I stumbled upon this from Pr. Petersen: What the Teacher Wants

There are two forms of flattery to which I have almost no resistance: laugh at my jokes or be kind to my children. If you laugh at my jokes I will like you. But if you are kind to my children I will love you forever and forever.

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Vicar Christopher Gillespie
Immanuel Lutheran Church of Frankentrost
Saginaw, Michigan
Lent 3 Oculi Midweek (February 27, 2008)
Philippians 2:5-11
Title: “The Lowly Lamb of God”
(based on the Lenten sermon series from CPH for 2007)

This week we continue our meditation upon the Lenten hymn “Lamb of God, pure and holy.” Our focus this week is upon the phrase “ever patient and lowly”, specifically the lowly Lamb of God.

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YouTube - Real Preachers of Genius: Seeker-Sensitive Mega Church Guy

Clips: 3-Year-Old Summarizes Star Wars
Later, it’s he who tells the story behind her filming:

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While prepping for Sunday, I listened to a couple “White Horse Inn” podcasts sitting in my iTunes. This program (and Issues Etc) both outdo the bulk of Christian radio I have ever heard. Not only are they insightful and useful but they aren’t theologically harmful. I urge you to listen to both programs over the K-Loves (or some of the other generic Evangelical radio networks) of this world.

From: What Would Moses Do?
“We’ve all heard sermons, especially from the Old Testament, on the faithfulness of Abraham, David’s “heart for God”, Joshua’s leadership…and we were encouraged to “dare to be a Daniel”. But the Bible is nothing like Aesop’s fables… you know, a story to illustrate a moral point. Abraham was, in many ways, a moral failure. Even his willingness to sacrifice Isaac wasn’t an example for us, but was an occasion for God to foreshadow Christ as the ram caught in the thicket so that Isaac, and the rest of us, could go free. Moses was God’s man, but wavered under the burden and was barred from leading God’s people into Canaan. Joshua is not a source for leadership principles, unless we’re planning on leading a campaign of destruction against idolatrous nations in order to establish righteousness in God’s holy land. Yet read in the light of the history of redemption, Joshua and his ministry point forward to Jesus and his person and work. David can only ambiguously be held up as a heroic example because of his failures. In fact, God didn’t allow him to build the temple, but gave this honor to his son, Solomon. David’s main role in the story is to pre-sage his greater Son, who assumed the everlasting throne that God promised to David’s heir (…It’s really not about David…instead of Jesus playing a bit role in David’s life, David was playing a bit role in Jesus’ life).

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Your Score: Ogham

You scored

You are Ogham, an ancient alphabet used by a number of peoples in northern Europe and still in limited use by some people in Europe as a “secret language”. You’re all structure and tedious to use, but have outlasted all opposition so far and will likely continue to do so. Just don’t expect to be liked.

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YouTube - E.R. discovers the flaw of post-modernisem

And so we learn what happens when you have relativism over truth, uncertainty over certainty… you cannot die in peace. Forgiveness is not relative, mumbo-jumbo. It is won by Christ by his death on the cross and poured upon you in your baptism.

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Vicar Christopher Gillespie
Immanuel Lutheran Church of Frankentrost
Saginaw, Michigan
Lent 2 (February 17, 2008)
Matthew 15:21-28; Genesis 32:22-32; 1 Thessalonians 4:1-7
Title: “Encouragement Without Evidence”
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Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, our meditation for today is taken from the Gospel text, especially these words “O woman, great is your faith! Be it done for you as you desire.” (Matthew 15:28)

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Dear readers,

Please pray for my bishop Pr. Mark Loest as he is taking a multiple week break for fatigue and exhaustion. Please pray for me that I may avoid fatigue and exhaustion while being vicar in the fullest sense of the word for the duration.