As Satan Sifts, Jesus Confronts, Forgives, and Strengthens Lent is not the most wonderful time of year. There’s no Christmas trees and lights and carols. We even put the Church’s most jubilant songs, the Alleluia’s and Gloria’s away for the season. Instead, there’s purple and black, there’s minor keys and haunting lyrics, and there’s time […]
Life Guide The renowned radio television and radio evangelist, Billy Graham, not a man from our church body, but a man who preached to millions of people, was jealous of our comparatively small little WELS Christian education system. He once sat in a WELS church just like this one, down near the Seminary in Mequon. […]
Life Guide There’s nothing that keeps you on the edge of your seat like a good mystery–learning the characters, investigating the details, cracking the case. The mystery genre of literature and film has captivated generations of readers and viewers with classic series like The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew all the way to the recent […]
Today we’re going to start with a pop quiz! No!! Pastor, you can’t give us a quiz on the day after Christmas. We’re not ready. Our bellies are still aching from the sugar, and we’re tire from opening presents. Okay, but this quiz should be pretty easy because it’s material we hear about every single […]
Waiting in fear is the worst kind of waiting. Waiting for Dad to come home and see that you broke the lamp tossing the ball around in the living room is the worst kind of waiting. Waiting for the principal to return to his office for your “talking to” is agonizing, the worst kind of […]
Life Guide Being an Old Testament prophet is kind of like driving to the Rocky Mountains. As you drive west towards the mountains, you can see them from incredibly far way, but what you see looks like one big mass of mountain peaks that are all exactly the same distance away. And because you can […]
Thankful from the Inside Out Have you felt the cold? I’m not talking about the blustery cold November days. I’m talking about those cold moments when you feel yourself turning towards God with your hands stretched out in the air? When the only sensation you’ve got left in the daily numbness of it all is […]
Life Guide Have you noticed it yet, the elephant in the room? The elephant in the room is one of those things that’s very obviously there, but something we’d like to go as long as possible without being forced to talk about. Today is the day we have to address the elephant in the room. […]
Life Guide My Grandmother gave me one of those gifts that keeps on giving. She gave it to me not on Christmas, but one particular New Year’s Eve. Grandpa had died and gone to heaven a few years prior and at age 92, she was now living in an independent senior home. We had made […]
There’s a famous scene from the Academy award winning Best Picture, Braveheart. William Wallace, played by Mel Gibson, strides across the battlefield in front of his rag-tag army of men, martialed for battle. As his fellow Scotsmen are sizing up the enemy across the battlefield, they’re considering their options, the best of which seems to […]