Northern Crossings

These are not the plates that I am talking about but you get the point. Some of the wedding stuff that I remember being used was a set of plates that commemorated mom and dad’s wedding, which were to me at least, a little...

  Back in the day before wedding planners, there were moms and aunts and preachers.  The preacher arranged the rehearsal and the wedding.  He chose the readings and the sermon text.  Moms and aunts worked on the dinners and...

My Niece the Bride The wedding of my niece is October 19 on the beach in North Carolina.  Rehearsal was last night and nice.  Air travel was insane and ridiculous. But that is another story.  Sitting here going over stuff and my...

  We’re packing up and getting ready to leave for a wedding which I’ll probably be talking about later in the week. In the meantime my mother and I were talking as we were making preparations and she brought up some...

I used to have all kinds of books that I reread every year.  C.S Forester’s books with Horatio Hornblower, and Forester’s tremendous WWII naval story called the “Good Shepherd”  It is a story of a...

I guess not.  The children definitely are fot above average. After the Trump rally in Minneapolis, Ken Martin the head of the Democrat Party in Minnesota, explained what was going on in Minneapolis, and of course said that he...

Martin Luther in his Church Postils sermonized about the 10 Lepers in Luke 17:11-19.  It seems to be a pretty straightforward text dealing with the Lepers faith and Christ’s love.  IN the midst of the Reformation however...

We had the funeral service for Amber on Monday October 7.  She was 36.  I baptized and confirmed her and officiated at her wedding.  I said all I had to say at her funeral but there are fascinating details that I can’t get...

Today is the remembrance of Phillip the Evangelist not to be confused with Phillip the Apostle.  Phillip was one of the seven deacons chosen to care for the distribution to the poor and would have been a close acquaintance with...

  People say that I get too political for a mercy blog and that I should stick to mercy stuff.  I want to show that I can be non-partisan  Well, not really because in weird world non-partisan means “Democrat”...

  I haven’t written a book report since my teens but here I go. In the atmosphere in which we live there is not a lot of room for gracious talk and the delightful turn of phrase. Words are blunt instruments and the world...

Tara Isabella Burton wrote an article  about what happened at Union Seminary the other day.  “Today in chapel,” the seminary’s official Twitter account revealed, “we confessed to plants. Together, we held our grief, joy, regret,...

Recieved a lot of comments on Pastor Henderson.  I gave some fale information.  He was born in Clarion and buried at Boone IA. His Minnesota  connection is a daughter living there. I apologize for the mistakes but the the...

  It almost passed me by.  The Sunday before last was the commemoration of Jonah.  I tend to think of Jonah as a joke if I think about him at all but the assessment needs evaluation.  One of the great exaltations of God in...