Newsletter (Page 31)

You sure travel a lot

“You Lutheran pastors sure do travel a lot.” That was what a student (who came from a non-Lutheran background) once said to me when I told her I was going to be going on a trip. She’s right. Lutheran pastors tend to travel for things like Circuit Meetings (usually once a month, getting together with…

Signs of Life

This week we kick off our Eastertide sermon series, “Signs of Life”. This series is one that I have been looking forward to, but is also one that challenges me. The whole idea behind the series is to look at seven biological signs of life, things that reveal that something is living. These signs are…

The Same Story

A pastor friend told me once about an experience he had as a seminarian visiting the church of a friend of his who happened to be a pastor’s son. Everyone in the service seemed enraptured by the sermon which had this refrain of “this is the day!” At the end of the service everyone left…

The Heart of the Body

Holy Week starts this Sunday with the celebration of Palm Sunday (11am) and continues with Maundy Thursday (7pm), Good Friday (7pm), and finally with the celebration of Easter Sunday (11am).   The theme of our Holy Week this year is “the Heart”. This whole year we are talking about the reality that “We are the Body,”…

The Gospel according to Rocky Balboa

The epic synthesized trumpets, the sultry licks of the electric guitar, the quiet percussion of the tapped cymbals in the background. It can mean only one thing – the “Rocky” training theme song. It’s probably playing in your head right now as you think about it. If it’s not, treat yourself by opening YouTube and…

The Gifts Are In The People

Transfiguration this coming Sunday marks the end of the Epiphany season, which will be replaced starting on the Wednesday after (Feb 14) by Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent. During this seasonal change we will be taking the opportunity to hear from “the Body”, the people connected to University Lutheran, instead of from Pastor…