The Old Testament Scriptures have many references to human beings not being able to see God and live. God told Moses, one of the greatest saints in the Bible, “You cannot see my face, for man shall not see me and live.” (Exodus 33:20, ESV) When Gideon saw the angel of the Lord he did…
The beneficiary of the current exhibit at the Buttonwood Art Space is Kansas City’s Metropolitan Council of Community Mental Health Centers. 50% of each art purchased during this show will go to the mental health programs that the Metropolitan Council supports. Here is a sampling of the show. “Hidden Tiger” by Dustin Miller Detail…
Wine and beer have been around for thousands of years, ever since farmers figured out how to combine the sugars in their fruit and grains with yeast to produce alcohol. Distilled liquor was developed much later in the 800’s in Persia but spread quickly throughout the world. The recently-closed exhibit at the Minneapolis Institute of…
Two years ago we came home to a note on our door that told us a company was coming soon to tear up our yard to make our home more valuable. You read that right. As the note explained, they were going to install underground fiber optic cable in our neighborhood so that we would…
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J. Warner Wallace makes the case that through the early Church Fathers we can see that the message of the New Testament has not been changed over the centuries. Some skeptics try to say that the New Testament has been altered over time. The problem is that we have the…
It’s always puzzled my why US Highway 218 ends at the intersection of US Highway 14 and Steele County Highway 45 along the southern edge of Owatonna. The highway comes up to Owatonna from the south, joins Highway 14, heads west for about one mile and then ends. It would seem to make more sense…
We install locks and security cameras on our doors to keep intruders from coming in. But what if the intruder was not some crafty thief but was God? What would keep God from coming in? As we continue with our series Doors of the Bible, tonight’s door is the Passover door. And we see that is…
On display now, through mid-April, is the stunning exhibit “Egypt’s Sunken Cities” at the Minneapolis Institute of Art. More than 1200 years ago two cities along Egypt’s Mediterranean coast disappeared into the sea. Ancient records told of their existence and splendor but very little physical evidence could be found. Then in 1996, the European Institute…
What would you call the entrance to the place where people go to be baptized? If you believe that baptism is a symbolic ordinance performed in obedience to Christ’s command you might call it an entrance or passageway. If you believe that Holy Baptism is a divine mystery through which we are born again into…
More and more, it seems, the large companies that control major portions of the internet, are limiting ways for Christians to get the word out about their products. Concordia Publishing House is the official publishing arm of my Lutheran denomination, The Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod. If this is happening to our publishing house, surely…
