   I remember the excitement of watching our children, and then our grandchildren, learn to walk.  It’s great to watch the little ones take those first few steps.  But you know what happens then, don’t you?  They are then able to get all over the place, but they do not yet know all the […]
2595) Don’t Just Do Something, Sit There! Read More »
Gougane Barra Church, County Cork, Ireland; built in 1700. ———————————- May the road rise to meet you, May the wind be always at your back, May the sun shine warm on your face, The rain fall softly on your fields; And until we meet again, May God hold you in the palm of his hand.
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“What Are You Looking For?” NOTE TO READER: Sundays (at least for a while) I will be posting a one hour video in two parts: Part One will be a worship service, and Part Two will be something else. The video is directly below this text. Below the video on this page is the Order
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From my Ash Wednesday sermon, March 6, 2019    (…continued) That gets us into a second theme of Ash Wednesday, which is the first day of the Season of Lent. Lent, for many centuries, has been associated with, among other things, disciplining ourselves to focus on that message of Christ. Lutherans have an additional
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From my Ash Wednesday sermon, March 6, 2019:    A family was planning to go to the lake on Sunday for a picnic and to go swimming. The father said, “We will get up early and leave first thing in the morning.” His little girl replied, “But Daddy, I know you don’t ever go
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By Eric Metaxas and Roberto Rivera, April 5, 2017 blog at http://www.breakpoint.org Religion is good for you: emotionally, physically, and economically. Who knew? Not the secularists.    In 2000, Harvard sociologist Robert Putnam published his groundbreaking book, “Bowling Alone.”  Putnam argued that Americans’ reduced interest in civic engagement— by which he meant not only
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“May I Have Your Attention, Please?” NOTE TO READER: Sundays (at least for a while) I will be posting a one hour video in two parts: Part One will be a worship service, and Part Two will be something else. The video is directly below this text. Below the video on this page is the
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By Anne Lamott (1954- ), Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith, Pantheon Press, 1999, pages 99-103.    Sam is the only kid he knows of who goes to church. I make him go. He rarely wants to.    This is not exactly true. The truth is he never wants to go. What 7-year-old
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   A church-goer wrote a letter to the editor of a newspaper and complained that it made no sense to go to church every Sunday.  “I’ve gone for 30 years now,” he wrote, “and in that time I have heard something like 3,000 sermons.  But for the life of me, I can’t remember a
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   (…continued)  The Sacrament of Holy Communion is a ritual, one of the central rituals of the Christian faith.  It was started by Jesus Himself to pass on the truth of who he was and what he was about to do.  Jesus began this ritual the night before he was to die.  He was
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