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One possible way to get back to more regular posting is to use the memes like I had done in the past.  One of my favorites was the Friday Fi...

Pretty much my idea of a perfect day.

My earliest memories of church revolve around two things.  I was four when the Lutheran Book of Worship was published, so I remember the ol...

I have to make a confession: I really, really don’t like this parable. This story of the three slaves and their master raises as many questi...

It's Reformation Sunday this week in Protestant circles, which for us Lutherans means we're into the season of questioning the benef...

There’s a quote attributed to Otto von Bismarck:  “If you like laws and sausage, you should never watch either being made.”  I will a...

            In our reading from the gospel of Matthew today, there’s a question that goes unasked and unanswered.  The fact that we d...

Preaching Texts             My friend Brittany and I had a funny little Twitter exchange this week.  First she said something a...

Been a while.  I know.

Pretty much my idea of a perfect day.

"If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me."  Matthew 16.24 I have al...

This is what our most recent family trip looked like.  My goodness, it's been a while since we've gone and done a day for just the f...

Pretty much my idea of a perfect day.

            In the mid-1990s I worked five summers at Carol Joy Holling Camp, a Lutheran church camp in Nebraska.  Toward the end of my tim...

In going over the Gospel text for this coming Sunday, I'm struck by a need to contemporize what Jesus is saying for modern ears. 

A few years ago, my wife Kristin and I took a group of kids to Sault Ste. Marie, MI for a service trip.  My work group was assigned to weed ...

I had one of those odd pastoral experiences yesterday - a funeral for someone I never met.

This is not an exact copy of my sermon from this morning.  I preached from a series of notes and included some improvised reflections based ...

Subtitle: "The 2011 Lutheran Campus Ministry Staff Conference in Review" God is our refuge and strength, our safety in times of t...

Oh, Larry - I thought of you often tonight.  And I really wish you were here.