Pastor's Blog

This weekend I graduated from United Lutheran Seminary in Pennsylvania. I finally finished my Master of Sacred Theology degree (STM), and it only took me ten years!

I was in a group and a beautiful sentiment was offered in our conversation: there is no such thing as a bad prayer. They’re right.

When I introduce Family Ministry in our New Member class, I like to ask the question, “What are your first memories of church?”

My wife left me, well, for a few days as she went on a trip. I had our two boys, and my job was to be Daddy. I have been a father for a while now. This is old hat.

With the vote on April 14 to cease worship at Christ Concord and to put the land up for sale, we find ourselves looking towards the horizon for a new vision from God to emerge...

We are starting a huge congregation-wide project! It is a new endeavor, and it doesn’t involve donations or service hours. It involves prayer!

On April 14, following the late service, we will have a congregational meeting to discuss and vote upon the future vision and direction of Christ Concord.

There is something truly humbling about washing feet. That’s probably why Jesus said that if you are to be a leader you must be a servant, you must wash feet. 

The safety of my frozen lake and gray sky 800 miles in the past, I wait in a winter sun. My bag, filled with virtuosic etudes by Chopin and the Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodies, carries the truly daunting:

The Saturday before last we had Story Day. Story Day is offered for our second graders who are ready to receive instruction to take their First Communion.

Jesus asks this question twice, in the same chapter of Mark 10. “What do you want from me?” How would you answer that? I think I know how I would answer, or at least how I think I would answer...

As promised at the Annual Meeting, we have three town meetings for you to choose from to hear about options for our Southland and to provide feedback. Please...

See these two pictures? I was on my balcony a couple of summers ago and saw these garage gutters sprouting—bursting—with new life!

I think we all know someone who has spoken a word to another in a hurtful way. Then the hurt given is excused because it was spoken in love...

Lent comes early this year with Ash Wednesday coming on Valentine’s Day, February 14.  (Nothing says “I love you” more than taking your sweetheart to a worship service to talk about ashes, sin, and death!)