As I began my sermon last Sunday… on Whitsunday… Pentecost… I mentioned that I couldn’t remember why it was called that. It was brought to mind … as I was reading a devotion from Luther in the devotional “Day By Day We Magnify Thee”— a good devotional, by the way, that has pieces of his sermons and commentaries… and other writings…
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And what’s with the weather?
As a pastor that is one prayer request I used to get all the time in both my Wisconsin and Iowa parishes—to pray for good crop weather.
Not so much here in Chicagoland.
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I don’t say gas, because I have a VW diesel. Which means more pain even though I get good mileage out of each gallon.
So why don’t we have it better than before?
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And I have been thinking…
My mother used to tell me (and if she were around… she is, just in North Carolina, not in Chicagoland…she would most likely be telling me still…) that doing that… thinking… is dangerous….
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I had written this on Wednesday… and on Friday… all day… there was this nagging sense that I forgot something…. It’s Friday… (kinda…) And Christ IS RISEN! (Not Kinda at all!) He is Risen Indeed! Alleluia! I could say this every Sunday, but then… Would it lose its meaning? Would […]
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And we are approaching that Friday we call Good… and for our sakes it is Good. It is good because God paid so we don’t have to. It is not so ONLY SOME, won’t have to—although sadly it will only be some. Not because God has decreed it…
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