This coming Sunday will be the end of our “Called by the Gospel” annual focus. This year we talked about vocation. We recognized that we are “called” by God to do what we do, no matter if that is being a mom or a student or an employee or an entrepreneur or whatever it is…

Increments don’t work for heart beats. There’s something about a heart beat that is counter intuitive for us. We tend to think in terms of increments. We like to plot everything out on a graph where “betterness” is vertical measurement and time is the horizontal measurement, and our line goes straight to up and to…

After the last pastor’s conference I have been reading “Sculptor Spirit” by Leopoldo Sanchez, a Concordia Seminary – St. Louis professor who specializes in knowledge about the Holy Spirit. In Sanchez’s new book, he opens up a question about how we view and talk about the Holy Spirit and His work. This is a good…