When I saw pay the wonders close,

listen to the best of the Church's music

for the season of Lent at at lutheran public radio

dot org

sacred music for the season of l, Lutheran Public Radio.org. Previous generation by and large got it right that it's about family and marriage over career and money.

Which once again just teaches us one of the major laws of these podcasts.

Politics is real.

Religion, religious liberty, even the First Amendment, not so real.

Anytime the screen is on, talk time between parent and child goes down by 85%.

Turn off your screens, put your phones down.

The iPad is not a pacifier.

On Earth as it is in heaven, we pray that every time we pray the Lord's prayer.

And I think Jesus gave us that prayer

to recognize that he is the link between heaven and earth and wherever

he is those two things are joined together.

This is John in Michigan and as a Lutheran high school teacher.

I love listening to and using issues etc in my classroom.

The headline is an article by Bob Smitana, for religion news service,

thousands of churches will likely close down what happens to all that real estate, a new book called Gone for Good,

looks at the ways that churches could be reused for the public good in the future.

It is a prediction that a hundred thousand or more churches will close down in the next decade or so.

Why is that and where is it happening?

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