St. Stephen's Lutheran Church

I pulled up to church one Sunday morning when the bells at Westminster Presbyterian started to play "Holy, Holy, Holy." It's one of those...

2 Corinthians 4:15: “Yes, everything is for your sake, so that grace, as it extends to more and more people, may increase thanksgiving,...

I can’t say that I have an all-time favorite hymn, but there are several that I’m always glad to sing. There are the standards: "Built on...

This is a letter that is intended to be given to my chaplain at Elmhurst College in Elmhurst, IL. I graduated from the College in...

I sometimes have dreams that leave me tired and troubled in the morning. I can rarely remember details. I just remember that I had a...

“For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a...

Henry and Noah were excited to carry the cross on Sunday morning. It was fun to watch their excitement. I understood it. In the church of...

St. Francis of Assisi - the patron saint of animals and animal lovers. But who was this guy that was born way back in the 1180’s well...

Here’s a push for reading outside the box. After a random comment that the letter of Jude is seldom (ever?) read, our Wednesday Bible...

Do you ever feel like you are just staring at a blank page? Writers might know what I am talking about - a page that is supposed to have...