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…
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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…
Recently there has been a meme going around the internet that says, “If you live in a pastor’s home, you have the right to remain silent, because anything that you say or do may be used as a sermon illustration.” Most of the time I ask for permission if I’m using something Liz has said,…
This coming Sunday, we are going to read from Nehemiah 8, specifically a story that sounds a lot like University Lutheran on a Sunday. The background of the story is that the people of Israel have somehow lost the book of the Law, the Torah, the first five books of the Old Testament. Upon returning…
There’s a bad one liner about pastors that goes, “You’ve got a pretty easy job, you only work on Sunday mornings, heh heh heh…” Yeah, yeah. I’ve actually gone on record as saying that I would do Sundays for free, but it’s the rest of the stuff during the week that you pay me for.…
We thought we were going to have a week to 48 hours of notice. Jan and I were actually talking about it on Tuesday morning. Then the phone call came that afternoon/evening. They were going to be here in the morning. Yikes! 110 gorgeous garnet and gold chairs needed to be off loaded from a…
The Winters family is trekking northward for vacation, and we stopped overnight on the 31st in a hotel for a break from the road. As such, Cricket and I (Jay) got up around 6:30am on January 1st to go get some hotel breakfast. Due to my normal travel schedule with District and such, I’m no…
Recently I was speaking with Father Jerome of FSU’s Oriental Orthodox campus ministry. I mentioned that the Orthodox have a different way of calculating the date for the celebration of Easter. If you want to get into it, the way that Easter is calculated is that Easter is always the first Sunday after the full…
Let me tell you a story of ancient history. Once upon a time, we watched television shows that were not on demand, but rather were set at a specific time of the evening. And if we missed them, unless we had some ancient technology called a VCR recorder, they were gone forever (or until they…