About a week ago our neighbor came over and told us that they were getting ready to put up a new privacy fence around their yard and that the chain link fence between our two yards would be coming down in a few days. The fence we have now is about four feet high and [...]
This morning we did something that is a bit out of the ordinary for our family, we attended the early worship service at the place where I served as vicar during seminary. It was good seeing these folks again, and we were reminded in a most significant way of the love that still exists between [...]
Every now and then I mention that I love reading books by Henri Nouwen. Nouwen was such a great spiritual leader as well as someone who embodied the loving spirit of Christ in all of his actions and deeds. One of my favorite devotional books written by Nouwen is his yearlong journal he kept entitled [...]
As I prepare my sermon for this week, my mind wanders to our front yard where the Easter lilies are once again blooming. Each year, as with many folks, Angela and I place lilies in the chancel of our church in memory of those loved ones who have since passed from earthly life. Sometimes we [...]
“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, [...]
Luke 23:39-43
Paradise
The book of Genesis describes God’s creation as a beautiful Garden filled with every kind of fruit and flower. It was a perfect place in full harmony with God the creator. Never has there been a place that matched its beauty. In a word, God’s garden is paradise.
In his epic poem Paradise Lost, 17th [...]
It’s true; what my Greek and New Testament Theology professor says about Jesus and the modern world is true. If you want to see Jesus make headlines; if you want Jesus to lead off the evening world news report, or get high Nielsen ratings on a week night, wait for Christmas and Easter. Jesus has impeccable [...]
At the onset of the Christmas season, Pastor Eric Hullstrom made the suggestion that it might be nice if bloggers could share some of their favorite memories of Christmases past. Eric got the ball rolling by sharing a couple of stories, and it sounded like a good idea to me. So tonight I share with [...]
One of the benefits of seminary life is the way those things one learns enhance your life, in particular one’s spiritual life. Biblical Hebrew is a requirement at Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary. It is a course by which seminarians learn to read and translate the Hebrew Bible text into English and do exegesis of [...]
What kind of love holds you,
Even when you resist;
What kind of love embraces,
When you refuse to be kissed?
What kind of love guards you,
When you walk away from light;
What kind of love leads you,
When your faith takes flight?
What kind of love comforts you,
When you’re sad or feel alone;
What kind of love stays with you,
When all your [...]
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