This Week Ham prayer As in the pork product? Yes, that ham. Well, not really, but 2500 years ago, a man addressed the God of heaven with seemingly incompatible components. Find out what kind of mnemonic the holiday meat can be to help us pray the way Daniel did. Worship together on Thursday at 7 PM or…

This Week Scary—Not Scary Have you ever dreamed something terrifying but awakened with great relief that it wasn’t real? What was scary wasn’t real, so really . . . not scary. But what if the terrifying thing is real? Our God doesn’t deal in make-believe. He knows the most frightening things that happen, could happen,…

This Week Your name fits The name Daniel means in Hebrew, “God is my judge.” The name fits. Read Daniel 6 and learn how Daniel cared little if his friends judged him for his talent, if King Darius judged him for his faithfulness to God, or if the lions judged him as tasty. God was his…

This Week Directional power Power can work in opposite ways. Computers are described as powerful when they can handle intensive processes to create useful content. But a storm that destroys everything in its path might earn the same description: powerful. Which direction does God’s power go? How does it affect you and others around you?…

This Week How much do you have to lose? Those who have the most to lose by following Jesus are often most reluctant to do so. Those in positions of political, cultural, intellectual, or institutional power may be the ones least able to recognize their need for forgiveness of sins and most reluctant to acknowledge that…

This Week Faith that helps you in the furnace The three men in the fiery furnace is one of the most familiar Old Testament stories. You can read it in Daniel 3. But don’t misread it. The Lord didn’t promise them and he hasn’t promised you that he will deliver you from every fire in…

This Week The most important group You are in many groups. Some of them are just facts. You can’t change your blood type or your eye color. You are in other groups by choice. You decided your hobbies. You joined particular social circles. Life has a lot of room for overlap, but when these groups…

This Week Can a Lutheran have a spiritual experience? We don’t normally talk like that. Can we? The record of God’s dealings with mankind, the Bible, includes dreams from the first book of the Bible to the last. We’ll encounter dreams throughout our study of the Book of Daniel; we come to the first one in chapter…

This Week A tastier banquet Read the Bible and you’ll encounter dozens of banquets—not the hot dish potluck kind, but the real deal. In some places, the Bible even describes heaven as a banquet. Isaiah wrote, “Lord Almighty will prepare a feast of rich food for all peoples, a banquet of aged wine—the best of…

This Week Daniel—how to live a godly life in an ungodly culture The book of Daniel in the Old Testament was written over 2,500 years ago about events that took place on the opposite side of the world. Yet, the book is about us. It teaches us how God is in control over all things, how…