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		<title>Rev. Bernhard Seter Scholarship &#8212; A Note From President Harrison</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Bernie preached Christ was “put to death for our transgressions and raised for our justification.” At first meeting he was so affable, kind, and comfortable in his own skin, one had no idea of his deeply thought-out and thoroughly biblical passion and ability to preach Christ for the consolation of souls. I had spent the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>+ Rev. Bernhard M. Seter + November 12, 1952-March 22, 2022 +</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Rev. Bernhard M. Seter died on March 22 in Grafton, N.D. He was 69. 
Funeral services will be Tuesday, April 5, 2022, at 2:00 PM at Zion English Lutheran Church of Grafton, ND. Visitation will be Monday, April 4, 2022, from 4-7 PM with a prayer service at 7:00 PM at Zion English Lutheran Church, Grafton. In lieu of flowers, memorials are preferred for one of Bernie's favorite missions.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Paying Attention</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2021 15:49:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Paying attention can be hard work and frustrating.  There are some great Scripture directives about paying attention. To what we have heard – “For this reason we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away from it” (Hebrews 2:1). “What we have heard” in this context [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Driven to Prayer</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Oct 2021 18:54:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Let everyone know most assuredly and not doubt that God does not send him this distress to destroy him.…He wants to drive him to pray, to implore, to fight, to exercise his faith, to learn another aspect of God’s person than before, to accustom himself to do battle even with the devil and with sin, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Distressed Prayer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2021 17:09:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Luther knew, probably from both his own experience and pastoral conversations, that prayer happens in the midst of darkness, both the darkness of night and of despair. Commenting on Gen15:5,the story of Abraham questioning God’s promise and God responding by telling him to number the stars for “so shall your descendants be,” Luther writes: The [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Inept Prayers</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rev. Bernie Seter]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2021 00:51:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Luther in Large Catechism says something fascinating. Therefore from youth on we should form the habit of praying daily for our needs, whenever we are aware of anything that affects us or other people around us, such as preachers, magistrates, neighbors, and servants; and, as I have said, we should always remind God of his [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Woke Children</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rev. Bernie Seter]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2021 19:24:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[President Harrison of the LCMS has a way if looking at conflict, trial, and temptation.  He says, and you plug in the verb, &#8220;we must pray, preach, or confess our way through it.&#8221;  All three activities are probably better than one or two. I recently read an article by Joy Pullman in the &#8220;Federalist&#8221; in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Deadly Indifference</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rev. Bernie Seter]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2021 20:35:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[RELIGION How Turning Christianity Into A ‘Nice People Club’ Is Destroying The Church After so much dialogue, tolerance, and compromise, the majority of faithful people now lack the capacity to defend themselves against oppressive systems. By Auguste Meyrat I was struck by Meyrat writing about a phenomenon that has plagued the church and nearly every [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Ex-parrots and Evangelical Preaching</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rev. Bernie Seter]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2021 22:21:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Evangelical preachers are like the man trying to convince the shop owner tha the parrot is dead except we&#8217;re trying to talk about the law &#8211; it&#8217;s dead it&#8217;s finished. Yeah we&#8217;re surrounded by people who tell us we need to get back to the law because we live in a world now that has [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Idolatrous Spirituality</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rev. Bernie Seter]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2021 14:57:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8221; I am spiritual, not religious.&#8221; This anti-creed or American culture is as close as it gets to a universal doctrine of our age. No doubt you&#8217;ve heard someone say it, or you&#8217;ve seen it on a bumper sticker.   Everybody, apparently, wants to be a spiritual no one wants to be religious. What is [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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