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            Let us pray:  God of light, you reveal all that we are, and we choose darkness.  You would love and redeem us, but we c...

We celebrate a baptism today!  [Name] receives the gift of baptism tonight.  Baptism is water joined with God’s promise, connecte...

  Tonight I had the rare privilege of meeting and listening to Shane Claiborne, author of The Irresistable Revolution , Jesus for Presiden...

http://www.imagesbyjasonandtonja.com/ This seems to be the picture of a pretty happy guy.  Thankfully these days I'm the one who get...

So, worship at University Lutheran Center last night was stumbling, to put it kindest.  Halting singing - unfamiliar hymns - a discombobul...

            A few years ago, my brother and his wife gave me a Stephen King book on tape for Christmas.  It was an early Stephen King book...

Sally from RevGalBlogPals has had a crazy week. Just like all of us, I suppose.  :-)  She asks what, in the past week, has: 1. Inspired...

Simeon said, “Lord, now you are letting your servant go in peace…for my eyes have seen your salvation…”  What did Simeon see?  How is it t...

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...