Lutheran Ladies Connection

If you deal with anxiety, you know that it is one way Satan can attack. Anxiety can cause us to avoid doing the things we should do. As Mike Fisk says in the short video belong, it can steal our joy because we’re always imagining the worst thing that could happen. The remedy is simple but not easy — trust God and take each day one step at a time. Jesus is with us. No matter w...

The Screwtape Letters is considered a Christian classic and I read it many years ago. Since the women of our congregation are engaging in a small group bible study about spiritual warfare, I decided it was time to read it again.

You may already know that the book is written in the form of a series of letters of advice to a young demon from his Uncle S...

Theo of Golden is the story an old man, (Theo), who arrives in a Southern town (Golden). Theo doesn’t tell anyone his last name, and his purpose is vague — he is there “on business.” At a coffee house called The Chalice, he notices a display of portraits by a local artist, Asher. Each likeness depicts a resident of Golden (their names a...

“By reading the Divine Scriptures (the scribe) wholesomely instructs his own mind and by copying the precepts of the Lord, he spreads them far and wide. What happy application, what praiseworthy industry, to preach unto people by means of the hand, to untie the tongue by means of the fingers, to bring quiet salvation to mortals and to fight the Devil’s insidious wiles...

In this chapter, the wall around Jerusalem is almost complete. The doors that must be set into the gates are the final piece of the project. But Nehemiah’s enemies have not given up. They continue to harass and divert him. In frustration he prays:

“…Now strengthen my hands.” Nehemiah 6:9

Have you ever prayed this way? I’m afraid my prayers ar...