Northern Crossings

One of the great joys in life is to travel to a strange country and gather in strange places and worship with strangers and to hear the rhythms and the notes and the melodies of our hymns sung in a strange tongue.  Singing in...

So for our friends up in the North Country I found  this fascinating.  I am in Chiayi or Chiayi, Taiwan and it is on the Tropic of Capricorn that means the which means on the winter solstice the sun here is directly overhead....

  We can get into trouble when we talk about socialism always producing dictators.  When you say that you identify yourself as a de facto conservative which is a bad word in this culture and you betray the fact that you...

  Things I learned while looking for something else.  Interesting history up here in the North Country and our connections.  Reading my mothers memoirs I was surprised how many of our relatives moved to Wisconsin and then...

Eric Lunsford is here with me in Taiwan.  We are at a meeting of missionaries from around the world that we in the LCMS have sent to share Christ.  I am preaching 2 times a day for the next few days and privileged.  Eric is...

  When we are asked about the Gospel or why we trust in Christ or what is the importance of our faith, we sometime stammer out something to the effect that Jesus loves me and He died for me and He forgives me.  Those are...

  The “Twilight Zone” episode called the “Obsolete Man” had a tag line about overreaching States and totalitarian  regimes that believed the Government had an answer for everything.  Rod Serling  the...

Professor David Scaer wrote this marvelous little citation with a queasy biological metaphor that gets one thinking.  Human beings have the propensity to not soul search.  This inability is detrimental to relationships in all...

One of the things about identity politics is that it, like most things on the left, corrupts everything it touches.  The mess in Virginia where no ones knows if they should condemn someone or defend someone because of the...

There ought to be something that is fundamental to our preaching especially in the Lenten season.  The Gospel, as Paul told us “is foolishness to Greeks and a scandal to the Jews”.  It is in aversion to what human beings think...

I get notes all the time about politics and religion and where to draw the line etc.  It is getting harder to draw the line anywhere any more.  Infanticide is a theological issue and so are many other things that we face.  They...

You get the Sunday of the Transfiguration.  It gets us started down the Lenten road and the story of Jesus transfigured on the mountaintop leads down into the valley and the next step is Ash Wednesday.  He was transfigured and...

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This is right outside my office at the All Faith’s Chapel, right next door to a bank and pretty close to a bean plant.  There is a lot of traffic on this road and for these young deer to hang around and eat tree bark...