Northern Crossings

I said yesterday that we can travel all around the North country and find these small churches that may still be functioning and worshipping folks but there are cemeteries all over marking the country side where churches were. ...

The Sacraments are visible signs of God’s mercy and grace and are meant to move the heart to believe by what is heard and what is seen.  The visible application of water connected with the command and promise of God are...

Last week was a busy time.  There were two funerals and visits to the cemetary.  Then there were several burials from the winter.  I talked to some of the funeral directors and their staff and it is a very unusual time for them...

Pastor Allen Anderson wrote an LWML prayer service entitled C>A>R>E>S.  He did a great job.  The LWML at Zion English in Grafton used the acronym but changed the corresponding words to Calling and Commissioning;...

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This week I have had two funerals and will have, by Sunday had five burials.  This is time of the year when the ground finally gives up the frost and burials of the folks that died during the winter can be interred.  Even though...

Please read the blogs from May 8-10 to get the sense of this blog.   As I have said before, I get criticism for drifting from objectivity when I get into politics or make comments on the political issues and characters of...

I have been ranting on the “sound of stupid” for a while and there is so much more.  In fact it could be a full time job.  So much of what is going on around us is stupid and it seems to come from an incorrigible...

Listen to what Martin Luther said. “According to Paul , this nobly-wrought and precious resurrection of Christ essentially must be, not an idle tale of fancy, futile as a dead hewn-stone or painted-paper image, but a powerful...

Liturgical worship will soon focus on Christ’s ascension and session at the right hand of God the Father.  It is a bit more complicated than the child who came home from Sunday School and when asked what he had learned he...

  John 10:27-28. “My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; 28and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand.…” They gathered around her like...

  But the greatest good in married life, that which makes all suffering and labor worth while, is that God grants offspring and commands that they be brought up to worship and serve Him. In all the world this is the noblest...

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his. — Oscar Wilde         Share this on:...

Edelweiss is a flower that grows high in the alps.  It is also a show tune from the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The Sound of Music. It is named after the edelweiss, a white flower found high in the Alps. The song was...