The events that put me at the front line of leading our church out of the ELCA began with an unexpected phone call from our founding pastor. Unbeknownst to him,…
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At Confirmation Camp the girl had scrawled across her forearm four pagan runes. Most folks would look past these symbols as mere doodling. But the images are pagan prayers every…
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Many thanks to Stephen Heath for providing a video summary of his new book, “A Christian Worldview Primer for Twenty-first Century Americans." A link to Stephen’s video can be found…
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I was amazed but not surprised over how little information was coming from the ELCA regarding the momentous decisions that will be made by and the potentially momentous changes that…
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Editor's Note: The author is writing about the outlandishness of the 1994 draft. It promoted same sex relationships and masturbation. And it was released to the press before it was…
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Six years. That was the length of time St. John’s Lutheran Church of Nanticoke, PA, went without a called pastor. For six years, this incredibly close-knit group of strong lay…
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August 17: 10th Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 15) Jeremiah 23:16-29 (Beware of false prophets who prophesy peace and plenty; God will act against wicked; his word is like fire…
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August 10: 9th Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 14) Genesis 15:1-6 (Abram’s faith is reckoned to him as righteousness) Psalm 33:12-22 (Happy is nation whose God is the Lord; he…
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August 3: 8th Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 13) Ecclesiastes 1:2, 12-14; 2:18-26 (Vanity of vanities, all is vanity…) RCL/ELW: Ecclesiastes 1:2, 12-14; 2:18-23 (Eliminates what God gives to…
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“Then He said to them, “My soul is deeply grieved, to the point of death; remain here and keep watch with Me” (Matthew 26:38). Grief is what we often experience…
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