Why Christianity? And Why Lutheranism in Particular?

  The confirmation project for our last year confirmation student(s) is to work with a mentor to answer and present their own personal answer to one of several proposed questions as they and the mentor talk about life and faith and being church together. In a series of newsletter articles, I’m inviting the congregation toContinueContinue reading “Why Christianity? And Why Lutheranism in Particular?”

To Believe and to Live

The texts for Sunday, August 12, 2012 (Lectionary 19): 1 Kings 19:4–8; Psalm 34:1–8; Ephesians 4:25—5:2; and John 6:35, 41–51 Here we are in week three of five of John 6— and we are sort of in the middle to the end of Jesus’ long discourse on bread— We started two weeks ago when weContinueContinue reading “To Believe and to Live”

You are witnesses of these things

The texts for Sunday, April 22, 2012: Acts 3:12–19; Psalm 4; 1 John 3:1–7; Luke 24:36b–48 … Witnesses. That’s an interesting designation. a witness sees something, experiences something. It’s kind of a passive thing, being a witness. Something happens and you simply observe it. And that makes you a witness Yet, we don’t tend toContinueContinue reading “You are witnesses of these things”