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• Lenten Reflections – Those Who Accused Him

  By H. David Baer on March 22, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  This Lenten devotion is from 1958. To learn more about the history behind it, click here. Now the chief priests and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus that they might put him to death, but they found none,… Read More ›

• The Trial of Jacob

  By H. David Baer on March 18, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  This Lenten sermon is from 1964. To learn more about the history behind it, click here. And Jacob was left alone; and a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day. When the man saw that he did… Read More ›

• “Get Behind Me, Satan”

  By H. David Baer on March 12, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  This Lenten sermon is from 1961. To learn more about the history behind it, click here. From that time Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and chief… Read More ›

• Lenten Reflections – Those Who Betrayed Him

  By H. David Baer on March 8, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  This Lenten devotion is from 1958. To learn more about the history behind it, click here. While he was still speaking, Judas came, one of the twelve, and with him a great crowd with swords and clubs, from the chief… Read More ›

• You Shall Be Called Cephas

  By H. David Baer on March 4, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  This Lenten sermon is from 1961. To learn a little about the history behind it, click here. One of the two who heard John speak, and followed him, was Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother. He first found his brother Simon, and… Read More ›

• Faith of our Fathers

  By H. David Baer on February 28, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  My grandfather was a minister who studied theology at Liebenzell Mission between 1925 and 1929. He was ordained in 1931 and immediately sent to China, where he served as a missionary until 1949.

• Lenten Reflections – The Lord’s Supper

  By H. David Baer on February 28, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  This Ash Wednesday sermon is from 1958. To learn a little about the history behind it, click here. And when the hour came, he sat at table, and the apostles with him. And he said to them, “I have earnestly… Read More ›

• My Crystal Ball Says These Things Will Happen While Donald Trump Is President

  By H. David Baer on November 9, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  History is full of surprises, irony, and unintended consequences – which is one reason those who study history know better than to make predictions. Since, however, I’m not a historian, I’m foolish enough to make a few specific predictions about… Read More ›

• America’s Useful Idiot – Donald Trump

  By H. David Baer on October 19, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  I hate to be so partisan, but Trump’s relationship to Putin is simply scary. Here’s what I wrote for The Cresset. “Among the shocks Donald Trump has wrought to American politics, one of the biggest in my view has been… Read More ›

• What Is The OSCE?

  By H. David Baer on September 24, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  Talking with students about my professional work, I realized that many people don’t know what the OSCE is, or what it does. So I thought I might post a short “educational” blog to help people learn a little bit about… Read More ›