

Numbers
Many of you know that I have always been fascinated with numbers. My mind just works that way. While I’m driving along or just waiting at...


Teaching Our Children Well
But take care and watch yourselves closely, so as neither to forget the things that your eyes have seen nor to let them slip from your...


Daily Bread
On Tuesday morning we welcomed two volunteers from the League of Women Voters as they set up a voter registration desk in our front...


The Table
Dear Friends at St. Stephen’s Lutheran Church, It was such an honor and a joy to worship with you on Sunday. I am filled with gratitude...


Gift from God
As a child, the females in my family were all into creating various crafts. I self taught myself how to do embroidery and cross...


Practicing Compassion
As he went ashore, he saw a great crowd; and he had compassion for them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd; and he began to...


Power
When Sue and I went to bed last night the lights flickered a few times but stayed on as the rain came down hard. Then, suddenly, it was...


Happy Anniversary
One year ago today, July 10, was my first day at St. Stephen’s as your newly called pastor! I am grateful for the ways you have welcomed...


Hope
Sue and I are Phillies fans. She classifies me in the die-hard fan category as I may even replay games on the TV after they have lost. We...


Wildfire
Kevin and I spent most of last week at Holden Village, the Lutheran retreat center in the North Cascade Mountains of Washington State....