Welcome to EmailMeditations. My name is Leon Stier. I am a retired Lutheran pastor (LCMC), having served small town and rural congregations in North Dakota and Minnesota for forty years.
DAILY MEDITATIONS
EmailMeditations are meditations on the Christian life sent daily to subscribers at no cost. Like the many different books of a library, these meditations come from a wide variety of times and places and theological perspectives. Some are written by me, some are written by others. Included are prayers, Bible studies, selections from the devotional classics, quotes, portions of sermons, random thoughts, stories, and hymns. You may not agree with everything in these meditations. I do not even agree with every sentence of every reading included here. The various writers would certainly not agree with each other on every point, but all are within the wide boundaries of traditional Christianity.
The meditations vary widely in length, but there is an average of about 1,000 words in each. The average person can read 200 words a minute. Therefore, if you take an extra five minutes each day as you are reading your email (or surfing the internet), you will have wedged into your busy schedule a little time to think about God and your eternal destiny.
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SUBSCRIBING
You may subscribe by entering your email address in the area provided at the top of the column on the right, and then clicking on the subscribe button. (IMPORTANT NOTE: If you are on the smaller screen of a phone, you will have to scroll down a bit to find the subscribe button!!) An email will come back to you asking you to ‘Confirm.’ Click on that and you are subscribed. (Another email will come, welcoming you to the blog and to WordPress. You may ignore whatever else is offered. There is nothing else you need to do.) Your Emailmeditations will begin arriving the next morning. Each day’s reading is immediately posted on the website. (If you do not receive the Emailmeditation, check your spam folder.)
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
- There are over 2,500 entries on this website. To read what has been posted previously you may: a) Browse the 90 Tags and 16 Categories listed in the right-hand column for topics of interest; b) Enter words, names, or subjects in the “Search” box at the top of the right-hand column; c) Read the “Related Posts” at the bottom of each daily post; d) Scroll down through past blogs on the BLOG tab on the menu above.
- For the best format to display each day’s meditation, click on the “Read on Blog” link in the upper right hand corner of your daily email.
- Go to the “A Bit More…” tab above (or HERE) for more items from previous EmailMeditations, thematically organized with links to each post. As time goes on, several other pages on a variety of themes will be added.
- Please note that over time the internet content changes and items disappear, so sometimes photos will be missing or embedded links will lead to nothing.
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(Home page photo: Head of Christ, by Rembrandt, 1648)
THANK YOU!
Thank you for visiting Emailmeditations. It is my prayer that these daily meditations, along with the readings already posted, may be of help to you in coming to know and trust in Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord, and to your growth in faith and obedience.
In Christ,
Pastor Leon Stier
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To you, O Lord, I lift up my soul. –Psalm 25:1
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Thanks be to thee, my Lord Jesus Christ,
for all the benefits thou hast given me,
for all the pains and insults thou hast borne for me.
O most merciful redeemer, friend and brother,
may I know thee more clearly,
love thee more dearly,
and follow thee more nearly, day by day. Amen.
–St. Richard of Chichester (1197-1253)