I remember being a kid and watching the seasons come and go in the Lutheran churches we attended, but nobody ever made sense of the seasons for me and certainly never answered the question what use they might be for me as a Christian. This was the case far too often in church for me…
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Posts from November 2018
Like a father of many children, I don’t think a pastor is supposed to have favorites. I’ve gotten flack about saying that I may or may not have a favorite Gospel, but that it certainly isn’t John. And I’m not sure that I’m allowed to have a favorite part of the worship service or liturgy,…
“Worship” “Liturgy” “Service(s)” “Eucharist” “Mass” “Gathering” “Church” “Meeting” – these are some of the words that Christians use to describe their Sunday morning experience. While none are terrible, some are preferred by some tribes. Our own Lutheran tribe has a preference toward “Service,” specifically “Divine Service” due to the German word “Gottesdienst” which literally means…
“We continue by singing ‘Simeon’s song‘” has been how I have introduced the Nunc Dimittis for the past couple of weeks now (Latin for the first line’s of Simeon’s song in Luke, “Now, You dimiss [me]”). This was because someone was talking to me about how we help people, especially students, understand what is going…