Good morning from Fort Wayne, Indiana. I am here at the request of our District President who normally takes this trip. Four times a year, he and his fellow District Presidents come to the midwest and meet with the national Synod President and others about the state of the denomination. But our District President couldn’t…
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Posts from April 2025
Thursday of last week was Maundy Thursday. The word “Maundy” comes from the Latin word “Mandatum” meaning “command” or “mandate”. The “mandate” of that day is when Jesus told His disciples, “Love one another as I have loved you.” (John 13) Of course, last week Thursday we saw someone who did the opposite of that…
Rev. Dr. Timothy Keller – a Christian speaker, pastor, and author – wrote a short book once called “Hidden Christmas”. In “Hidden Christmas” he argues that the true meaning of Christmas (Jesus’ incarnation and birth into the world for the sake of dying and rising for humanity) gets “hidden” by the commercial and sentimental secular…
There’s a joke that goes: Little 5 year old Samuel couldn’t go to church with the rest of his family one Palm Sunday because he was sick. He stayed home with his mother who took care of him while the rest of the family went to church. When his father and siblings came back, he…
I saw an interesting phrase that caught my attention the other day. The phrase was “sources of darkness”. As I thought about this phrase, I thought, “well, that’s odd – there are actually no ‘sources’ of darkness.” Darkness is an absence, and you don’t really have a “source” to an absence. That isn’t to say…