Author: Rev. Bernie Seter

The Gospel from John 11 can be read with the “rest of the story” in mind.  We live in the light of the resurrection.  Martha didn’t.  She lived in the hope resurrection to come. Knowing the ending, we have a...

Churches that have liturgies and even some that do not have a pericopal system that they follow, and there may be several of them.  The year the Gospel lesson for Lent 5 is the story of the death of Lazarus and Jesus trip...

I had calmed down from my rant about the millennial who made a bacon cheeseburger at the local Cenex by cooking the hamburger and slapping raw bacon on top of it and serving it.  He thought the hot hamburger would someone make...

On Wednesday Evenings during Lent we often use the service of Evening Prayer.  Interestingly the Canticle for that service is the Magnificat.  For some it seems strange that we would use a Christmas song during Lent.  We miss...

In 1881 a billboard in London invited passers-by to come to church.  It said, “There is a poem on ‘The Buried Life’ of which I am often reminded. Your lives are busy, useful, honest; but your faces are anxious and you are not...