Northern Crossings

The insignificance of words and yet the necessity of preaching – there is a huge difference between God preached and God not preached, and that is why real Lutherans teach the necessity of preaching, and preaching something very...

Received this back in august and forgot to post.  Congratulations Kissinger>  He is our Project 24 manager in Kenya and we are very proud of what he had done in the past years and what he will accomplish in the future.  He will...

Historians and historical philosophers present history as a development from age to age and from moment to moment, each step always coming nearer and nearer to the highest possible development and evolution, provided that the...

I told someone last Friday after the death of one of our old time members, Phyliss Hass, that we had lost one of the Grand Dames of the Lutheran Women’s Missionary League. They looked at me with those uncomprehending looks so I...

  The world I thought belonged to me- Goods, gold, and people, land and sea; Wher’er I walked beneath God’s sky, In those old days, my word was “I.” Years passed: there flashed my pathway near The...

  This song is written as “a Christmas carol for children,” from the venerable Martin Luther, dated 1535. It is based on the Bible’s account of Christ’s birth in Luke 2:1-18. Good news from heaven the angels bring, Glad tidings...

As we remember those events and the innocent who died, let us also remember those who served in their vocations and lost their lives in trying to save others.  Then let us pray – Heavenly Father, God of all concord, it is...

  So if you have been following and reading along with us the last few weeks we have been thinking about the song, “This Old House”; the sad and creepy ending of the book of Ecclesiastes in chapter 12; what some have...

Found this picture under the heading “Houses that Might As Well Be Haunted” There have been many responses to the blogs on Ecclesiastes 12 and concepts of home.  The responses are not on the blog itself but usually...

Somethings are so strange that I have to comment upon them even when they break into where I was going with the previous blogs.  We have been thinking about the depressing story at the end of Ecclesiastes, which by the way is so...

  There is an interesting set of events that happen as folks reach a certain age and that is the attachment to home.  As we age and the cares and vicissitudes of life set in and we find ourselves tenuously grasping that thing...

So the grotesque list of geriatric symptoms in Ecclesiastes 12 that according to John F.A. Sawyer include deafness, constipation, ischuria, acrophobia, and agoraphobia, anorexia, impotence, and horror of horrors, white hair are...

I hinted that Stuart Hamblin, the author of “This Old House” might have  fallen back on some Old Testament illusions and memories from his Christian upbringing.  He said that he wanted to write a song about an old house but also...