Worship

What you eat and how you eat varies in every culture. When Christopher and I were in Italy this summer, we learned that in a very real way. Christopher is a very picky eater, so it was difficult to find things he liked. Luckily, in most of the places...

So, yesterday I went to Conference-mandated Diversity Training. This is new; the training is not new, but the fact that the Conference mandates it now for all clergy (every four years, to my understanding) is new. This is the second workshop that we...

St. Peter Lutheran Church and the Portage Exchange Club are co-hosting a Fall Fest on Saturday, October 2, 2010, from 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. The Fest will be held at the Church, located at 6540 Central Avenue, Portage, northeast of the juncture of...

“Now the tax collectors and ‘sinners’ were all gathering round to hear him” (Luke 15:1). Reading this passage again this morning, I couldn’t help but notice an editorial comment in the NIV translation (which is not included in the TNIV, the...

“Whoever does not carry their cross and follow me cannot be my disciple” (Luke 14:27). “I guess that’s just my cross to bear.” Have you heard someone say that? Usually we refer to something that’s bothering us, some burden that we wish we...

“One Sabbath, when Jesus went to eat in the house of a prominent Pharisee, he was being carefully watched” (Luke 14:1). I was thinking yesterday (I know, always a dangerous thing to do when one is leading worship)...maybe we give the Pharisees in...

A week ago, I was in Germany. I was at the end of a two-week journey through Italy, Austria and Germany, which some followed through my pictures on Facebook. It was a wonderful trip, made even more wonderful by the fact that I got to share it with my...

Sunday is a day of worship. Worship your faith, your family, your free time, the sun, some water, the outdoors, friends.... What are you going to really enjoy this Sunday? I begin Sundays by having breakfast with my wife, something we seldom get to...

“However, do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven” (Luke 10:20). Sometimes we get focused on the wrong thing, don’t we? We get distracted by the spectacular, the “noteworthy,” the...

“The man from whom the demons had gone out begged to go with him, but Jesus sent him away, saying, ‘Return home and tell how much God has done for you.’ So the man went away and told all over the town how much Jesus had done for him” (Luke...