If you’ve ever noticed the tag line that comes along with our branding at University Lutheran, you will know that it says “A Jesus Centered Community of Scripture, Faith, and Grace.”  The first part of that is the indefinite article “a”. Back in June I wrote about the power of the definite article, but there…

Tomorrow marks my 15th year of ordained service to the Church. Wikipedia tells me that fifteen is a “superabundant number,” but the article linked there confuses me. It also tells me it is a “triangular number” because you make make a triangle with 15 parts. It tells me that in Hebrew you write 15 as…

“The music seemed to come from all around us,” said one of the participants at the recent “Lower Keys Underwater Music Festival”. The music festival held underwater at Looe Key Reef featured special underwater speakers that blasted some “underwater hits” like “Yellow Submarine” from the Beatles and “Under the Sea” from the Little Mermaid soundtrack.…

During our road trip down from seeing my parents, one of my girls started asking questions about baptism as we were talking about baptism. It went something like this: Kid: “Hey daddy, do we need to baptize Dixie?” (the family dog).  Jay: “God only tells us to baptize humans, so we only baptize humans.” (Matthew…