Category: Bernie’s Posts

We are going to take some time to try and understand how the use and abuse of words can change an entire culture and be destructive of faith.  What words do to mercy when definitions and uses are changed is incredible. Think of...

      This is a picture of part of the LCMS delegation to the Life March in Washington D.C..  In front is the Rev. Matthew Harrison the LCMS President.  To his left is the Rev Don Fondow President of the Minnesota...

There is a certain amount of handwringing that is going on among some folks as to whatever happened to politeness?  Of course the folks whose memories go back as far as their last birthday think that rudeness and a loss of...

I went to Nairobi the first time after the embassy bombings long ago that foreshadowed the 911 bombing here.  The Kenyans were proud of how they had comeback from that attack and how the site was a part and peaceful place to...

That is what John the Baptist said as he preached in the Judean wilderness and that is what Jesus said when He went about preaching teaching and healing and feeding and raising the dead and showing all the signs of what the...

  Every day someone, somehow, tries to create In us a preference for someone or something. Because of the choices we have in cars, peanut butter, and paper towels, advertisers set out to show why we should prefer one to...

I was surprised to hear about the death of Roger Leonhardt.  I wrote a blog about him on May 22, 2015 on the celebration of his 50th anniversary in the ministry.  The problem is that there is so much that needs to be said and so...

  In a few days we get to send in our quarterly tax payment for those of us who do such things.  Others will start getting ready to get their tax stuff together for filing.  All of us get to listen to the bloviating about...

I wanted to include this song yesterday in the blog but the computer wouldn’t let me.  Her is my setting and interpretation of “We Three Kings”. Share this on:...

This from yesterday. Epiphany begins today with the visit of the wise men.  Christmas is officially over and the Epiphany season begins.  God is shining forth His glory in the face of His beloved Son. We don’t know much...

The Wise Men are like so many things in the Bible a subject of controversy as is the star they followed.  There are a lot of “how many angels can dance on the head of a pin” arguments over the Christmas star and what...

So by now you should have 10 partridges and the attendant pear trees; 18 turtle doves; 24 French Hens;28 colley birds;30 gold rings;30 geese a laying;28 swans; 24 maids milking and I assume the milk that they milked; 18 ladies...