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May 2021
Dear Friends,
And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and
the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: 2 And she
being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered. 3 And
there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having
seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. 4 And his tail drew
the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the
dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her
child as soon as it was born. 5 And she brought forth a man child, who was to
rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and
to his throne. 6 And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place
prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and
threescore days.
7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon;
and the dragon fought and his angels, 8 And prevailed not; neither was their
place found any more in heaven. 9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old
serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was
cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. 10 And I heard a
loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the
kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren
is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. 11 And they
overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and
they loved not their lives unto the death. (Revelation 12:1-11 KJV)
Four years ago I wrote a newsletter on the Ascension of our Lord. This month we
celebrate the Ascension on the 13th and it is time to write again about such a
significant and yet overlooked event in the life of Jesus and our own lives. The
child described above is obviously Jesus. He was caught up to God and to His
throne, also an obvious reference to the Ascension. When Jesus ascended, He
cleansed the heavenly sanctuary with His blood and prepared a place for us to
enter at the end of our earthly sojourn. His blood broke Satan’s power to accuse
us before God, so the devil was cast out with his minions and we are now without
charge before God, declared innocent in the blood of Calvary’s Lamb. (see
Hebrews 9:11-28)
Also Paul wrote; What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who
can be against us? 32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for
us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? 33 Who shall
lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth. 34 Who is
he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who
is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. 35 Who
shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or
persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written,
For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the
slaughter. 37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him
that loved us. 38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels,
nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39 Nor
height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the
love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 8:31-39)
Paul understood the significance of the Ascension (see vss. 33 + 34 above) and
so may we through his words. Happy Ascension Day! May God be praised for so
great a gift!
God’s Peace,
Jay Weidner
DONATIONS RECEIVED...
In memory of Dale Maikkula
From the Albert & Janis Saari Family
Neil & Debra Sunnarborg
Elaine Bergstedt
In memory of Marvin Maikkula
From the Albert & Janis Saari Family
In memory of Jack Bergstedt
From Elaine Bergstedt
In memory of Betty Bergstedt
From Elaine Bergstedt
In memory of Calvin Naasko
From Jay & Kristine Weidner
SPRING SEMESTER WRAP UP
The spring semester will soon be completed and we are beginning to plan for the
Fall. Classes will resume Wednesday, September 8 so stay tuned for details on
future course offerings.
Please keep Lois Matson in your prayers as she will finishing up her studies in
the Deaconess Program. Details on the graduation service will be announced in
the near future.
ATTENTION: SUPPORTERS
THERE ARE OTHER WAYS TO SUPPORT THE SEMINARY.
Have you ever have used Amazon.com to do your shopping? Now AmazonSmile offers
the same products, same prices and same service and will also donate 0.5% of the
price of your eligible AmazonSmile purchases to Inter-Lutheran Theological
Seminary whenever you shop on AmazonSmile.
Simply log use in by using this link….
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which will bring you directly to smile.amazon.com in support of our
organization.
The Thrivent Choice® program offers a way members can recommend where Thrivent
Financial distributes some of its charitable outreach funds. As a benefit
member, your ownership of Thrivent Financial products and services help make
this support possible.
Remember….If you are an eligible member 16 and older you can recommend how to
distribute Thrivent Financial charitable grant funds thought Choice Dollars®.
Member eligibility and the Choice Dollars designated are based on:
• Holding a Thrivent Financial volunteer leadership position; or
• Having $750 or more in annual premiums of qualifying
insurance products; or
• Having $20,000 or more in contract value of qualifying products.
For more information about Choice Dollars, visit http://www.Thrivent.com/thriventchoice
or call 800-847-4836 or contact your local Thrivent Financial representative.
THRIVENT CHARITABLE IMPACT & INVESTING
formerly InFaith Community Foundation
InFaith Community Foundation and Thrivent have an expanded
partnership, which will include a shared brand and client experience. This will
allow InFaith to continue to provide all the same offering and services. They
will be operating under a new name, Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing,
which highlights the close relationship they have had with Thrivent since their
inception. The Inter-Lutheran Seminary has an Endowment Fund through this
organization. Funds contributed to the endowment are not used for current day to
day operations. Only the annual earnings of the endowment will be used for the
seminary’s needs thereby ensuring the continued existence of this funding
source. This is the preferred method used by many non-profit entities,
especially ongoing religiously focused organizations such as seminaries.
We would love to grow our endowment into a major source of ongoing seminary
support. Although the seminary still needs the financial ongoing regular
contributions of our supporters, please consider the endowment fund for your
planned giving needs. For more additional information, please contact Kirk Otto,
Jr. at (715) 294-4343 or Cheryl Hendrickson at (906) 482-3337.
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