This past Epiphany, we explored what we called “the Genome”. The idea behind the Genome was that if the Church is the Body of Christ, then it shares His DNA, His genetic coding. This happens in the case of bone marrow or certain stem cell transplants for cancer patients. The cancerous cells of the old…
A Jesus Centered Community of Scripture, Faith, and Grace
Posts from April 2018
One of my favorite cultural icons returned to Twitter this week. That’s right, friends and neighbors, this week @KanyeWest returned to the Twitterverse after almost a year of having deleted his account. I honestly don’t know what it is that I like about Kanye so much, but if I had to guess, it was his…
“You Lutheran pastors sure do travel a lot.” That was what a student (who came from a non-Lutheran background) once said to me when I told her I was going to be going on a trip. She’s right. Lutheran pastors tend to travel for things like Circuit Meetings (usually once a month, getting together with…
This week we kick off our Eastertide sermon series, “Signs of Life”. This series is one that I have been looking forward to, but is also one that challenges me. The whole idea behind the series is to look at seven biological signs of life, things that reveal that something is living. These signs are…