On any given Sunday during worship, I am playing two different roles. Those roles are sacrificial and sacramental, and you can tell the difference by the way that I am facing. It explains one of the questions that I get quite often from people who didn’t grow up in the Lutheran church, “why do you…

It can be hard to write a newsletter article – not because there isn’t anything to say, but because there is so much that I could say. But not everything about what I could say will interest you or be beneficial to you in your walk of faith and vocation. I could probably do a…

So I’m writing this article while watching FOX’s (actually quite entertaining) “The Masked Singer” where famous people dress up in wild costumes that hide their identities, but reveal little aspects of them. These costumes range from an alien to a rabbit to a pigeon to…all sorts of stuff. And it makes me think of Sunday…

“We continue with the entrance hymn” is probably the strangest thing that I say on Sunday morning. There are great theological mysteries, and then there is the mystery of why we call this hymn the “entrance” hymn when we’re about five minutes into the worship service.  The reason for this itself is simple. Like a…