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…

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…

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…

This Sunday is “Pink Candle Sunday!” The Sunday is named “Gaudete” Sunday which comes from the Latin word for “Rejoice” which was the first word in the historical first song of the mass for this Sunday (which quoted the Epistle lesson for the day, Philippians 4, “rejoice in the Lord always,”). Traditionally, the color of…

“Pastor Winters, would you be willing to give an invocation at our next event?” The first time that I heard this phraseology I thought it was a little silly. “Sure, that’s easy enough,” I though to myself, “I just say ‘In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,…