Author: Rev. Bernie Seter

We have said that the recruiting, training, sending, support and return of missionaries is a monumental job and when a church body undertakes that task I does so under the Lordship of Christ whose mission it is.  More and more...

  When Jesus made the statement “Let not your hearts be troubled” in John 14, Luther says this is the most consoling sermon the Lord preached on earth. It is the sermon preached at many funerals and the...

Charlemagne’s Coronation So, when Winfred (Boniface) was born, the Moslems were in North Africa. Sixty years later they were stopped in their tracks by Charles Martel at Tours, just south of Paris. Remember Charles had...

Entering a monastery, Winfred, who later will become Boniface, was a distinguished scholar and his piety was beyond reproach.  He was a great student and became an even greater teacher.  The monastery where he was learning and...

There are things that slip through the cracks.  I was looking to get my hymn list done for the summer and I looked at my calendar and saw that June 5 was the commemoration of Boniface of Mainz, “missionary to the...