Northern Crossings

I wrote this five years ago and still find it interesting.  There is a movement a foot that wants to place great emphasis on church planting and that is fine.  We have a new District Workbook that wants to look at church...

I have been finding delightful quotes from Stanley Hauerwas.  Here is one apropos of the March for Life taking place today. “On our social practices of ignoring injustice, ignoring suffering for the sake of our own...

  Stanley Hauerwas is no stranger to these pages.  He is a wonderful scholar and commentator with interesting positions on many things.  I thought this quote was stunning.  I have been thinking about the deep dive many are...

Jonathan Morris was a priest that came on FOX News and offered opinion on politics and morals and the goings on of the Papacy.  He is glib and well spoken and a nice looking fellow.  I remember thinking after a statement that he...

I was given an article to read and study and give a reaction to.  It was about missions and growing churches here at home as well as some ideas about a new church movement and a new church body.  It is interesting stuff and at...

In my last blog I said something to the effect that we hadn’t had huge amounts of snow.  Rev Fondow, the Minnesota North District President said that I needed to revise those remarks.  After this weekend consider them...

First off it gives me a pain that a portion of Psalm 51, the great penitential Psalm about grief, a bad conscience, the pain of breaking one commandment that causes you to break them all, and one of the great songs of life, is...

  This blog started because North Dakota District LCMS and Minnesota North District partnered up to work with the Evangelical lutheran church in Kenya and the LCMS to build boarding schools for at risk children.  Then we...

The idea that there is no sin is of course a wonderful demonic expression that the modern world has adopted with relish.  It is demonic because it has about it the hiss of the serpent in the garden and it is the cause of all the...

Beyond 24 Bible Camp  This last December our students who are entering secondary school in January joined our existing secondary students for a 2 day fun event at Project 24:  Lenkishon.  This annual event was a time for the...

It happens like clockwork that we have the Baptism of Jesus as a Sunday in Epiphany.  We get so used to it that we might miss some interesting and soul uplifting details. The reaction of human beings to the nearness of the...

  I was excited to get my new Pastor’s Desk diary from Concordia Publishing House.  That reminded me of a deadline I had – I opened up my ephemeris and found out that I had a Pastor’s Corner article due for the...

Rev. James Neuendorf visiting affected citizens from te earthquake in Puerto Rico More from James Neuendorf. A community leader from an evacuated Residencial in Ponce Playa gathered a large group together and asked me to give a...

I have been trying to lay out the issues that face Gospel proclamation and preaching in terms of politics.  There are grave and powerful  issues that face missionaries and mission that are political, and part of the roadblocks...