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The online musings from pastors, theologians and laity that will help you see the world from a Lutheran perspective.
Candlemas: Candles, Crepes and Compline
The Feast of the Purification of Mary and the Presentation of our Lord falls on Feb. 2.
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We shall not want: On Psalm 23
The words of the familiar psalm are more than poetry. They are a confession of faith: With Christ as our Shepherd, we want for nothing.
Love keeps no record of rights
We do a nice thing and immediately tuck it away in our mental archives for later. “Wow,” we say to ourselves, “would you look at that!” And then we do. Often.
Where moth and rust decay
“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven.”
When faith matters most
When the unimaginable happens, faith in Jesus is the only thing that will help us through.
Embracing the church generation gap
Instead of just bridging the church generation gap, what if we embraced it? From both sides?
There’s no theology like snow theology
Snow falls, and the ugliness of an unsightly landscape disappears. Dirt, decay, dilapidation — all are erased by two or three inches of newly fallen snow.