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Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer was hanged for treason by the order of Adolf Hitler at Flossenburg Concentration Camp on 9 April 1945 - eighty ye...

I originally wrote this piece four years ago, but it seemed worth revisiting this year. Tomorrow is Ash Wednesday.  For Christians, the ...

Beloved in Christ, Stepping away from our series on worship to give you some snapshots of things going on at St. Petri that deserve some e...

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, In a few short days, the season of Epiphany will come to a close and the liturgical season of Lent...

Tomorrow is Ash Wednesday.  For Christians, the Ash Wednesday service marks the beginning of the season of Lent, a penitential period in whi...

The story that gives rise to Psalm 51 is terrible.  King David, the man after God’s own heart, the shepherd boy chosen by God to be the lead...

Preaching Texts God uses the church to show the world what God’s reign looks like.  The church observes Holy Week to remind itself of the f...

3 The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery; and making her stand before all of them,   4 they said to h...

"Create in me a clean heart, O God,      and renew a right spirit in me."  Psalm 51.10 Gerhard Forde, one of my professors at s...

Preaching Texts Every year about this time, my campus pastor would start hectoring us about our Lenten disciplines. “What are you going ...

Preaching Texts Let’s pray: Lord Jesus Christ, You come to us in our darkness and ask us to trust that you will lead us into Your light. ...

Matthew 18.10-14: “Take care that you do not despise one of these little ones; for, I tell you, in heaven their angels continually see the...

1. Did you celebrate Mardi Gras and/or Ash Wednesday this week? How? We did a pseudo-Fat Tuesday this week: ate good, thick crust, Chicago-...

Preaching Texts Every year about this time, my campus pastor would start hectoring us about our Lenten disciplines. “What are you going to...

T.S. Eliot - "Ash Wednesday" V If the lost word is lost, if the spent word is spent If the unheard, unspoken Word is unspoken, u...

Our good friend Kathryn, an ordained Lutheran pastor in a suburb of the Twin Cities, wrote the following for her congregation's March ...

Preaching Texts One of the central arguments many people use against God’s church has to do with hypocrites. If I may caricatu...

"Like newborn infants, long for the pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow into salvation - if indeed you have tasted that...