Northern Crossings

Julie McManus was one of our first Mary Okeyo scholarship travelers and she and her father have been tireless workers and advocates for Project 24 since she came back.  She is a teacher and her father is a retired pastor.  She...

Even as a child I recognized the difference between a payment for work, a right, and an allowance.  An allowance seemed to me, even as a child who shoveled a block of side walk for a quarter, to be a condescending action that...

I have a vivid memory of driving across the painted desert in Arizona. Dad was driving, mom was asleep in the back, and I don’t know what my brother was doing but he was along.  It would be the last of our families road trips...

Visit the homes in which your people dwell O Lord, and keep them from all harm and danger.  Grant that they may dwell together in peace under the protection of your Holy angels.  Bless them and protect them that they may share...

Rev. Herbert C. Mueller, Jr., was born May 16, 1953, the son of Rev. Herbert C. Mueller, Sr., and Ruth (nee’ Polley) Mueller, in Grand Forks, ND, and reborn into the Kingdom of God by Holy Baptism at St. Andrew’s Lutheran...

  A wonderful resource in times of trial and murkiness for me at least has been, wait for it; the Large and Small Catechisms of Luther.  Luther understands that when threats are perceived and confronted the church often...

Received this from Pastor Filipik who is the Mercy coordinator for the North Dakota District.  I was quite taken with it and offer it to you for consideration – Greetings in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ who was, who...

There is a wonderful prayer in the service of Compline. Eternal God, the hours both of day and night are yours, and to you the darkness is no threat. Be present we pray, with those who labor in these hours of night, especially...

I get to hear from folks around the world and find out how they are doing.  There are newsletters and blogs although some of them are curtailed for security reasons that keep us informed.  I also have the privilege to hear from...

Cool thing on Fox today as the Roman Catholic Cardinal from New York brought out the fact that the words, “don’t be afraid” are mentioned 365 times in the New Testament and that is one encouragement for each...

There are shriveled souls out there that don’t like cats.  If you are one of the cold, wrinkled, closed in, cat hating crowd; if you are one of those people who, when someone loses their pet cat say’s,...

One of my Pastor friends sent this to me and I think it is worthy of being passed along. http://www.conservativetruth.org/article.php?id=7969

The Plague Doctor When the Covid-19 virus passes and things return to some kind of normalcy it will be extremely important to study what happened here. In a country where, on average, 200,000 people are hospitalized each year in...

The March Madness from Covid 19 has spilled over into the preacher types. There has been an explosion of the old controversy about the Lord’s Supper, the common cup, individual cup, the prophylactic effects of a silver...