I recently went to Buffalo Wild Wings with a friend (by the way, Tuesdays are half priced wings day, so if you want to invite your favorite pastor out on a Tuesday . . .). While we were there, in addition to telling us about half priced wings, our server told us about Buffalo Wild…

I admit, I enjoy UrbanDictionary.com . (That should probably come with a caveat. It’s not always the most G-rated website.) Recently I looked up the UrbanDictionary listing for “Keeping it 100”. Keeping it 100 is a phrase that usually gets emojified as 💯 (did you get the emoji?). However, the emoji itself simply means “100 points”.…

“At this time I’d like to invite forward all of the children that we have with us this morning, or anyone feeling especially childlike.” It’s my line that invites the children forward for the children’s message. I don’t think I always do a great job with the children’s sermon being for the children – but…

Chuck Berry died on March 18th of this year, 2017. But just recently, he was “made alive” again by having his very first music video of a song that appears on his forthcoming album, CHUCK. Watch it and read the story here.  There is something about listening to the music of a recently dead artist.…

We live in a day in which email correspondence is taken so seriously that it can spell disaster for politicians, a day in which so much of our communication is available on the internet that the information that we CAN attempt to control, we do attempt to control. Communications scholars have been interested in this…

I just came back from the Regional Pastors’ Conference in Lake City FL where I was for Tuesday and Wednesday. We had two major speakers, one was the legal counsel for the Florida Georgia District, and the other was a guy from Grace Place Ministries. Grace Place is a healing and preventative ministry for people…

Last night at the Concordia Seminary (St. Louis) Call Day, Seminarian Kyle Will, one of our alumni, received his vicarage placement to the Lutheran Church of Vestavia Hills in Alabama, just outside of Birmingham. Pastor Jay was a vicar in Gainesville FL, where he met Liz and first tried his hand at campus ministry work.…

This Sunday at University Lutheran we are starting a new series about the Seven Marks of the Church according to Martin Luther. These Seven Marks were a big deal for Luther and the first Lutheran performers. They had been kicked out of the Roman Catholic church, and now they had to answer a very important…

While I was packing for a trip this past weekend, Liz noticed something interesting on the bag that I was packing my stuff into. The bag I was packing my stuff into was from “Be The Match”, the National Marrow Donor Program. Because I donated my stem cells through a process called apheresis, they gave…