Posts from 2019 (Page 3)

Convention – What is that?

This week PJ is off at the LCMS National Convention. Which begs the question, what on earth is a convention? Convention is a triennial business meeting of delegates from the different circuits of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod. These delegates attend to examine, discuss, and vote on both the elected officials of the Synod as…

Connecting the Dots

We’re starting a new newsletter series that we will call “Connecting the Dots,” all about the readings that we experience on a Sunday morning. Normally speaking here at University Lutheran we hear 4 specific readings every Sunday: The First Reading – Normally the Old Testament, although in Easter this reading comes from the Book of…

Autoresponders and Sabbath

As this newsletter is going out, I’m heading back into Tallahassee with my family after vacation taking time to visit my family. If you send me an email (and you haven’t sent me one in the last 48 hours), you will get my “autoresponder” that says, in part, “Thank you for contacting me. I am…

Reading with a Plan

Recently, through the “Question of the Week” in our email newsletter, we found out that people wanted to grow most in the area of “understanding the Bible”. When we dug a little deeper, we found that this was coming from about three places: 1. “I feel like I don’t know where to start.” 2. “I…