God of hope, give us grace to cast away the works of darkness, and to put on the armour of light, now in the time of this mortal life, in the which your Son Jesus Christ came to us in great humility; so that on the last day when he shall come again in his glorious majesty to judge the living and the dead, we may rise to the life immortal, through him who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit now and for ever. Amen.
The church statements tend toward pacifism, and if we are pacifistic in the face of Hamas’s unrelenting evil, then we will abandon God’s creation to the forces of death and destruction.
Today is the 291st day of 2023. There are 74 days left in the year. TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT
1972: A three-nation UN investigating committee, made up of Yugoslavia, Somalia and Sri Lanka, accuses I.
Anthony Stephens, a married former pastor of Our Savior Lutheran Church in Croton-on-Hudson who is also a licensed mental health counselor and attorney, has filed a lawsuit against the Metropolitan New York Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America after he was defrocked following what he argues is a protected confession of infidelity to a colleague minister.