Author: Rev. Bernie Seter

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...