The Untame Holy Spirit

I came upon this post quite by accident this morning while looking for something else entirely and I found something about it to be quite profound.  This line in particular “And perhaps mercy and creation aren’t really that different.” There’s some really good stuff there about mercy and what we Lutherans might call grace. It is well…

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Ascension

Sermon for Ascension Sunday, Year A.  Act 1:1-11 This past week I attended the NC synod assembly in Hickory, NC and it began, as it always does, with worship. During the time when the offering was taken up, a woman came on stage and began to paint on a huge black canvas. As the offertory…

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And Still No Old Testament Reading

This past Sunday, while we were passing the peace, the man who was our lector for the day grabbed me and said “There’s no Old Testament reading in the bulletin!” Oh how nice it was that someone in the congregation actually cared about the fact that there was no Old Testament reading! Oh how nice…

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The Label Maker

This week I purchased a label maker. It’s pretty fancy, too!  I remember the old fashioned label makers of my youth with plastic tape and a little wheel you spun around to the right letter and then you’d squeeze to make the white imprint of the letter on the tape. Not so with this! There’s…

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