Month: March 2014

We talked about mission and repentance yesterday.  Luther said in the first of his 95 Theses that the whole life of the faithful should be an act of repentance.  Jesus first words in public ministry called for repentance.  All...

If the motive of being a missionary  or doing mercy is sharing your faith please don’t. Jesus may have been astonished at some peoples faith but people shouldn’t be.  We should be astonished at Christ and what he has...

So it is St. Patrick’s Day and Spring is supposed to be a week away.  I’ve been complaining about this weather since before Thanksgiving and the more I look at stuff like this the more upset I get .  This is Marvin...

Romans 1:16 says that the Gospel is God’s power, not ours.  It is God’s power because it is about the One that he gave for our salvation.  The Gospel is Christ’s story and God’s power and we preach and...

I have always tried to figure out a word to describe the connections and happenstance meetings and events that come together in strange ways to enrich our lives and sometimes make us gasp a little bit.  Serendipity does not...