Five Things to Know for the Fall!
Get all the latest main news notes as we start the Fall semester at the University of Arizona!
Bringing in the HERD!
It is once again Fall round-up time for those of us in campus ministry and we don’t want any LCMS students to fall between the cracks, especially those elusive Wildcats! So how can you help us bring in the Wildcat herd?! Learn more here.
Welcome Back Evening Prayer!
Please join us on Thursday, August 28 at 6 pm for a welcome back meal followed by an Evening Prayer service at 7 pm at Faith Lutheran Church (3925 E. 5th St.). This will be a great chance to get connected, reunite, and for you new students to get acclimated! Plus, we will have candles and Jesus!
What Must I do?
Dear loves ones, you can’t “do” an inheritance. An heir is what is done for you. An heir is what you are in Baptism. So to answer the rich young ruler’s question, “How does one inherit eternal life?” By becoming a child of God and being joined to Jesus in baptismal faith and dying and rising with Him. That’s how you inherit eternal life. And if anything gets in the way of that, get rid of it. It isn’t worth it. Not compared to the treasures in heaven.
Does the Bible tell us if there is life on other planets?
Ponder this: Jesus ascended through a cloud (Luke 24:50-53; Acts 1:9-11). But what if Bedouin nomads on their camels in the desert saw this from a distance and said to one another, “Look, what is that? and “Uh, I don’t know. It must be a UFO.” Further, what if other observers only saw two angels from their vantage point and thought that they were some sort of alien life forms? Just because we don’t know what something is, it doesn’t mean that there is not someone else that does.
The Authority to Forgive Sins
And just as He did for the paralytic back then, Jesus forgives us first, and then He heals us, yes physically. No, He doesn’t heal us of all our physical ailments (yet). But He does something even better - heals us of death and hell, and heals us of spiritual corruption. But yet, one day soon He will follow the forgiveness of our sins with the total healing of our bodies in the resurrection to life eternal.
