Northern Crossings

This was taken at the Popple Ridge Picker concert held Sunday night at Immanuel in Grand Forks and well attended and much appreciated.  Fund were raised for Project 24 and Christ Cares for Children Kenya.  The folks at Immanuel...

  I am preaching on the Sabbath Rest and we are not going to think about the old argument about what day for worship  or what the Sabbath day really is.  It is the third commandment. The 1st commandment demands our hearts...

Next Saturday at the Dakota Girls and Boys Ranch there will be a “Faith in Action Mercy conference from 9;15 – 4;30.  The address is 7151 15th St. S Fargo. Go to www.dakotaranch.org/mercy/registration-form . and...

This is not a very good picture but…. it is a picture of Our Saviors Lutheran in Cavalier and last years Reformation Hymn Sing. One of my special memories is the sound of a brass Quartet playing in the Quad at Concordia...

I have never considered myself to be a poet.  I like to write words that rhyme and so I guess that is poetry in a sense.  When ever I put a poem on this blog I usually get a reaction from folks who like poems so even though I...

Popple Ridge Players Flyer.qxp_Layout 1   Click on the above – the Popple Ridge Pickers are coming to Grand Forks next Sunday at 4 at Immanuel Lutheran Church 1710 Cherry Street.  We had a concert with them last...

I had a flashback the other day. It came about when I was watching an advertisement for something, I can’t remember what, but it had to do with men exercising in the background in what was obviously a well equipped exercise...

Riot at Ephesus After showing the protesters trying to rip themselves into the Supreme Court building, the news organizations that have been accused of “fake news” said that it was not a mob.  Hunting down Senators...

LCMS Human Care and World Relief is already active in the Carolinas and Florida after the devastation made by Florence and then they were getting ready for Michael.  This is the prayer offered up last week and as we are finding...

In the blog yesterday we concentrated on how it is possible for human beings to even corrupt the work of mercy.  It is certainly possible for human beings to complain about it as they did in Acts 6.  People were mad about the...

“If our being as church is of our own making so that we are neatly structured for carrying out the plans that we make and properly organized for putting into operation what we think should be done, then it is very possible that...

  John Kennedy supposedly wrote a book about Senators making extremely difficult decisions that went against their party or their constituents, and were extremely controversial at the time. He wrote it supposedly when he was a...

All the craziness that has been taking place on Capitol Hill, around the Supreme Court and in other places in our country,  I suddenly had one of those memories that popped into my brain of an incident long ago and far away.  It...