by Dale Rintelman | Apr 20, 2022 | Elder Reflection
“I promise” How many times have you heard someone utter those words to you? Maybe you have uttered them yourself to someone else. Did they believe you? Hebrews tells us that God a covenant with Abraham and swore by Himself… His Name… His...
by Paul Leichty | Oct 29, 2020 | Elder Reflection
Very truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. John 12:24 We live in an age of great change, and great change usually means great losses. All of us face losses on a...
by Paul Leichty | Sep 16, 2020 | Elder Reflection
In a previous article, When Blessings Become Curses, I wrote about one of the Old Testament words for “bless” and “blessing,” the Hebrew word, barak. This article focuses on another word for blessing, ashar, or asher, which originally meant “straight,” “level,”...
by Paul Leichty | Aug 6, 2020 | Elder Reflection
Many of us have an ambivalent relationship with law. Just mentioning the word “law” brings up many different images in our minds. For most of us, the law means a set of fixed rules and regulations that we are supposed to live by. We operate by law at many different...
by Paul Leichty | Jul 23, 2020 | Elder Reflection
After the children of Israel were delivered from slavery in Egypt, they spent 40 years wandering in the desert before entering the land God had promised to them. In that 40 years, almost all of the adult generation died. It was their children who eventually entered...
by Paul Leichty | Jun 25, 2020 | Elder Reflection
Two weeks ago, I started writing about the “powers” as spiritual forces in the world. We have seen, on the one hand, the Apostle Paul’s admonition to stand against the powers (Ephesians 6:10-12). In that passage, the powers are seen as spiritual forces...
