... continues to exist. We close our minds to taking any of the blame as American citizens who live very "high on the hog" at the expense of the third world countries. According to a June 12, 1985 article in The Des Moines Register by Flora Lewis: Per capita food production in Africa has declined sharply as population soars. Some African countries have begun agricultural reforms, but virtually all African politicians refuse to deal with the fact that they are producing more mouths and no more food to fill them ...
... saved. So each night at the appointed hour, the broken (strangled) trumpet call is heard from the tower in the marketplace of Cracow, as a telling reminder and warning that powers of destruction and evil still await not only Cracow but the whole world. (Flora Lewis, Europe, quoted by Don Shelby, "When God Settles Accounts," July 2, 1989) It is a dramatic picture of warning. Sounding the trumpet that judgment is coming. It is an apt introduction to our sermon today. Did that word of verse 12 register clearly ...
... chapter titled "Robust World-Joyfulness." Although he did not have this Isaiah text in mind, these words surely capture its essence: The whole creation, flora and fauna, human brothers and sisters, wife and children, music, food, sex, drink, all call for us to sing the Maker’s praise. A ... R. Wietzke, The Primacy of the Spoken Word, Augsburg, 1988, p. 159. 2. Lewis Thomas, The Lives of a Cell, Bantam, 1980, pp. 113-116. 3. "I Know That My Redeemer Lives," Lutheran Book of Worship, Augsburg, 1978, #352.
... of a very ancient church which contains a magnificent 4th or 5th century BC mosaic, tiny stone cubes showing all kinds of flora and fauna of the area with outstanding artistry and even humor, but most important for Christian pilgrims, under the altar there is ... that Jesus is Lord of life and Ruler of all nature, and so He can do whatever He wants to do with it. C.S. Lewis, in his book “Miracles” says that this is simply God doing in microcosm what God does all of the time in macrocosm. God takes the seed ...
