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Founded in 1900, Zion Lutheran Church has been serving the Manning community for over 100 years. They love proclaiming the message of salvation in Jesus Christ to the world, starting right here in our own community. We worship Jesus every Sunday morning and we celebrate the Sacrament of Holy Communion on the second and fourth Sundays of the month.
Zion Lutheran Church Blog
1w ago
In part one of this article I was brutally honest about the adverse effects of high social media usage,[1] comparing it to the negative effects of wallowing in manure. Manure, like social media, has its place and its benefits, but neither does good things for those who wallow in them. If you didn’t read part one, it’s available ..read more
Zion Lutheran Church Blog
1w ago
Social media is a cesspool, a dumpster fire, a manure pit,[1] and if your kids are average U.S. kids, they’re wallowing in it for nearly five hours per day. And if statistics hold true, you are wallowing in it for longer than you’re willing to admit. It should go without saying, but all this wallowing in the manure pit of social media ..read more
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5M ago
In vitro Fertilization. In February, in a legal response to the the acidental thawing, and therefore death, of frozen human embryos in an Alabama IVF strorage facility, Alabama’s Supreme Court ruled that human embryos could be considered unborn children under Alabama’s Wrongful Death of a Minor Act. This sent media pundits and ..read more
Zion Lutheran Church Blog
6M ago
As science progresses it uncovers layers upon layers of exquisite design, revealing God’s genius even as it prods anti-God, anti-design proponents to increasingly desperate attempts to claim otherwise. With near frantic shrills they insist, “Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed for ..read more
Zion Lutheran Church Blog
6M ago
How do you handle stress? You open your credit card bill and it’s much higher than you thought. What happens inside you? Your daughter isn’t happy in her marriage. What happens in your spirit? Your husband’s health is slowly but steadily deteriorating and you’re not sure how much longer you can care for him in your home ..read more
Zion Lutheran Church Blog
6M ago
Demographers tell us that an increasing number of Americans, when asked to check their religion, are selecting “none,” thus the rise of the so-called “nones.” But this terminology is misleading. Americans may increasingly be checking the “none” box, but Americans are not becoming less religious.[1] What ..read more
Zion Lutheran Church Blog
6M ago
I’m struggling to give words to the idea that has taken up residence in my mind. It’s one of these ideas that has the power to remake us, to dramatically change the way we move through life, the way we see and treat each other, the way we govern, the way we argue, the way we neighbor. It’s related to identity, but it’s ..read more
Zion Lutheran Church Blog
7M ago
Most of us like to imagine ourselves independent minded, unfettered by people’s expectations and evaluations. Of course, most of us like to imagine ourselves independently wealthy and unbound by the realities of limited income, too. In reality, both live only in our imaginations. We are not independently wealthy and we are not independent ..read more
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7M ago
Shel Silverstein, the children’s poet (author of the well-loved Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic, Runny Babbit, and more), in the playful poem below, raises a question that plagues us all: What if…? In this article we will dare to answer the question. But first, the poem: Whatif by Shel Silverstein Last night ..read more
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7M ago
From his prison cell, Christopher Yuan had time to think. He was in prison for buying and selling drugs, but he wasn’t thinking about drugs; he was thinking about identity. Christopher had spent his youth and young adulthood identifying as a homosexual: For the longest time, I really believed that God had created me this way ..read more