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Serious Injury? Serious Attorney.

I don’t know the attorney on this billboard - which is a few blocks from my house, as is his rather large law office. But I have heard good things about him, and he gets high ratings online. I’m not typically a fan of attorney billboards, but I like this one.

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Larry Beane Comments
The Resurrection and the Life by the Way of the Cross

Now it is that death itself suffers an intrusion, and its own violence is turned back upon its head, because Life Himself has entered in where He had no need to go. His own Love compels Him, nothing else. Here He befriends the whole world of sinful mortal men at their worst and most helpless. He does not intervene to spare His friends from the pain of death, but He approaches death in the Flesh, in order to reconcile the world to His God and Father. He invades the tomb in order to empty it, to raise the dead and give them Life and bring them to God in faith and love.

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2023 St. Mark's Conference

The Saint Mark’s Conference concerns the confessional, sacramental, and liturgical life of the Church of the Augsburg Confession. It is hosted by Our Saviour Lutheran Church, Baltimore, Maryland and is open to interested clergy and lay persons.

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Burnell EckardtComment
Food for Thought

Now that our debt has been fully repaid, Jesus calls us to come to the tree of his cross and feast on the perfect fruit of his body. This fruit is no longer withheld but is offered each week in the bread and wine of the Lord’s Table.

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Jason BraatenComment
Reminiscere: Human and Divine

At this Sunday’s Eucharist the Church calls upon Almighty God to ‘Remember Thy great mercy and love, for they have been from of old.’ But while our Maker may be relied upon to reminiscere His chesed, His fallen creatures suffer from short-term memory with respect to the doings of this perishing age.

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