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Rediscovering Changeless Things

1/23/2020

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“For I the Lord do not change; therefore you, O Children of Jacob, are not consumed.”
—Malachi 3:6
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Things change. Sometimes this is good. Wisdom is earned with age and experience. It can’t be downloaded straight into our brains. In the same way, we teach the young people to put off childish things to prepare for the responsibilities of adulthood. Anthony Esolen in his recent book, Nostalgia, calls this “organic change” or changes that unwrap and unveil the full potential of one of God’s creatures. It’s change that delights in a baby taking her first steps, for instance. But when change attacks God’s gifts of life, like the institutions of the family and church, it is evil. This is change that tears down creation, despises God’s work of redemption, and stains God’s work of sanctifying our souls.
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    Pastor Brian Flamme is the senior pastor of Immanuel Lutheran Church in Roswell, New Mexico.

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