I’m recycling an old reflection now as I just returned from vacation. I hope these thoughts from a few years back are in some way still blessing to you… Romans 13:11-14 Matthew 24:36-44 Quite a few years ago now I accompanied a group of soon to be high school freshmen to Confirmation Camp at Augustana …
Month: November 2019
Christ Meets Us in the Darkness…
Colossians 1:11-20 Luke 23:33-43 I experienced it just this week, you see. I saw with my own eyes what it looks like when God’s Own step into the darkness of their own hard earned struggle and pain and fear and meet Jesus there. I saw grace over a funeral lunch where individuals who once considered …
New Heavens, New Earth…
Isaiah 65:17-25 I confess now to flipping through all the possible lessons assigned for this week before settling on this one. For now, at least, I need to hear such words of resounding hope. Words which speak of a different world than the one I have found myself inhabiting in these last days. A world …
What God Has In Store: Expanding Our Imaginations
Luke 20:27-38 We had come together then to scatter the remains of a beloved mother and grandmother and great grandmother. The late October snow that had fallen a few days before had mostly melted and the ground was simply glistening in the sunshine under the willow tree her family had chosen as her final resting …