Not Enough
At our stewardship luncheon, one person mentioned how she thought Jesus was unfair to the rich man when he told him to “Go and sell all...
You Saint You
One of the readings for this Sunday is Jesus’ raising of Lazarus. There is so much that is powerful in this story, but one of the images...
Re-forming
This Sunday is Reformation Sunday, a Lutheran festival day not celebrated by other denominations. It is a day Lutherans remember the...
The Healing Power of Prayer
Hubert Humphrey, while hospitalized for the bladder cancer that ultimately claimed his life, reported in 1978 that for him it was “a...
The Uncertain Resource
God’s gift of water is becoming an endangered resource or as Larry Rasmussen calls it in his beautiful and informative book...
Believing in Saints
Last week at the Farmer’s Market, someone came up to us and said, “I didn’t think Lutherans believed in saints.” To which I replied, “We...
Day of Atonement
Years ago when we moved back to Minnesota for a year, one of the things I missed was the reminder of the Jewish holidays. In the town we...
"A World Class Saint"
“God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by...
Give Me What I Need
In May, a business owner in Washington declared that he was guaranteeing all of his employees a minimum salary of $70,000. Why that...
Queen of the PCT
People respond to grief in all sorts of healthy and unhealthy ways. The latter, I think, happens when we are afraid of grief’s pain and...
