The Apostle Paul

The Apostle Paul

Appreciating St. Paul: the Appealing, Appalling, Apostolic, Apocalyptic Preacher of Christ Sisters and Brothers, A blessed Easter season to you! The fifty days between Easter and Pentecost are a great time to explore the incredible message of God’s victory in Christ...
Easter 2018

Easter 2018

Forth he came at Easter like the risen grain, he that for three days in the grave had lain; raised from the dead, my living Lord is seen; love is come again like wheat arising green. (— Text from Oxford Book of Carols, © Oxford University Press 1928. All rights...

Lent: Drawing Closer to God

O Lord, throughout these forty days you prayed and kept the fast; inspire repentance for our sin, and free us from our past.—ELW 319 For those of us who have been Lutherans all of our lives, we know what Lent is about! Simply take the Lutheran guilt you already feel,...

The Three Most Important Days of the Year

For Christians, Maundy Thursday through Easter Sunday is considered to be the three* most important days of the entire year. It is during those holy “three days” or in Latin, the Triduum, where we journey with Jesus from his last supper with his disciples (Maundy...