I planted my annual garden this weekend. Took me most of the day on Saturday. Anyway, here is the result: It's not much, but I enjoy i...

(note: This sermon was also preached, in a slightly different version, for the monthly winkel meeting. You can read that version here. ) T...

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Ascension Day May 25th, 2006 Ephesians 1:16-23 “Riches and Power” Paul’s greeting to the Church in Ephesus begins with all the usual apostol...

More random thoughts.... 1. On the term "serial prayer": This has been used to justify, in our circles, participation in interfai...

Check out our congregation's website , especially our page of articles and resources . There you will find a number of documents which ...

Lutheran Carnival XXIV is up.

Regarding Judas. What does scripture tell us? 1. He was an apostle, and presumably (because the text doesn't say otherwise), participat...

Get some chuckles over at St. James the Hoosier (what a cool name for a blog, by the way) as Pat Robertson gets a Memo from God.

A few items of note, questions to ponder, fun-facts-to-know-and-tell. 1) I mentioned to someone today that, "All pastors should blog....

Winkel (Pastors' Conference) May 15th (28th), 2006 “The Church Must Go On” Acts 1:15-26 Grace and peace to you, brothers, in Christ our ...

Easter 5 – (May 15th 2006) John 15:1-8 “Vine and Branches” I. Introduction – I usually like to leave the scriptural teachings about agricult...

A couple months ago I pointed out this story about an LCMS pastor arrested "in the pulpit". Now some further developments... Fro...

April 30th was our annual Mission Festival Sunday at Grace. This year we welcomed Rev. Wallace Schulz of the Lutheran Heritage Foundation ....

"MILWAUKEE (AP) - A woman claims a Catholic school system in east central Wisconsin illegally fired her for having in vitro fertilizati...

Happy National Day of (unionistic, syncretistic, confusing of the two-kingdoms, thinking it's a means of grace even though it's not...

This was a truly worthwhile conference as far as the speakers were concerned. I wanted to share some more notes from the lectures: Dean Nad...

I'm here at the Spring conference in Manitowoc, WI. The speakers are Dean Nadasdy and James Voelz. Nadasdy went yesterday. I had him...

Here are some recent comments by my friend and classmate Rev. Kevin Golden, of Grace Lutheran Church, Holts Summit, Missouri . I will add t...

Welcome to the Lutheran Blogosphere, "St. Charles Place" A now "ex" employee of a Christian bookstore, Charles writes th...