On Sunday afternoon I had the privilege of sitting in the back of the sanctuary (like any good Lutheran) and watching and listening to the [...]

Every fourth Sunday after Easter is Good Shepherd Sunday.  It is why this week we’ll hear from the 10thchapter of John’s gospel each year on this Sunday.  We see [...]

On Sunday afternoon our family went to look for and buy some plants for our back yard.  Not long after we got to the nursery section [...]

As I was watching and listening to my girls run around outside with joy in their voices as the rain fell on their faces, I [...]

Yesterday was my father-in-law’s birthday.  It never really occurred to me to think about birthdays in the Bible until just the other day when we were [...]

I will admit that I have been very attentive to, and consuming as much information as I can, about the war in Ukraine.  While it does [...]

On February 24th Russia invaded Ukraine and on the 27th in worship we took a moment of silence and prayer for the everyone affected by the war.  The [...]

I am sure we have all had someone in our life whom we’ve taken or borrowed an idea from.  I worked alongside a senior pastor when [...]

We don’t often celebrate, by way of worship, the many holy days that we have on our church calendar, but this week as I was [...]

I write this letter to you on Monday where we commemorate Martin Luther King Jr. Day.  A day that we remember the life and ministry of [...]