IN GOD WE TRUST

October 28, 2016, 2:49 pm

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When we were little children, we viewed our parents through an almost entirely positive lens.  They could do nothing wrong in our eyes.  Then we became adolescents, and we viewed our parents through an almost entirely negative lens.  They could do virtually nothing right in our teenage eyes.  And periodically in adolescence, teenagers will slip […]

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CHILDREN OF GOD — UNITED IN CHRIST

December 3, 2016, 12:57 pm

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We live in a time of powerful forces seeking to separate people into demographic boxes.  These forces want to define us as strictly this or that “kind” of person; and these forces want us to start defining ourselves according to these strictly defined categories as well.  More and more, we see categorizing, labeling and dividing […]

ALL WE NEED IS LOVE

February 2, 2017, 9:16 am

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Saint Valentine is a Christian saint of the Third Century AD who is widely celebrated on February 14th and commonly associated with romantic love.  Although not much of St. Valentine’s life is reliably known, it is highly agreed that St. Valentine was martyred and then buried on the Via Flaminia to the north of Rome […]

LET US PRAY

March 31, 2017, 3:51 pm

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As we approach the holiest time of year for Christianity, I am thinking more about the absolute necessity of prayer for our Christian life.  Basically, Christians believe that the human soul is literally made by God for connection and relationship with God.  In addition, because so much of this world is set against the grace, […]

OUR CHURCH LABYRINTH

December 1, 2017, 2:02 pm

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Faith and spirituality come to us as a journey from the outer beginning toward the inner finishing, perfecting and fulfilling — and Jesus Christ is the Way. Saint Paul the Apostle of Christ declared the following message of Christian faith: “Let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus […]

SIGNAL BEACONS FOR CHRIST

January 2, 2018, 1:12 pm

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It’s the Third Day of Christmas as I write this article and New Year’s Eve is four days away. Many people still have most of their Christmas decorations out in observance of the Twelve Days of Christmastide, and my wife Hilary and I recently noticed a front lawn Nativity display with an illuminated set of […]

OPEN TO ADORATION TRAFFIC

March 28, 2018, 10:59 am

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We all know that the flow of visitors to our congregation took a big hit with the major road construction we had to endure. Even electronic navigation devices steered would-be visitors to adjacent cul-de-sacs and streets during this long period of roadway construction in front and around our congregational facility. But now at long last, […]

GOD’S WORD / OUR WITNESS

May 1, 2018, 1:14 pm

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The following article is my sermon that I wrote and presented on the Third Sunday of Eastertime, April 15th. After the worship service, I was told by a parishioner that I should make this sermon into an article. So in response to this suggestion, I am sharing it here as my article for the May/June […]

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GOD WORKS IN MYSTERIOUS WAYS

September 30, 2018, 9:16 am

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As I get older, the saying “God works in mysterious ways” is becoming much less a mere platitude for me and much more a powerful statement of divine truth. Biblically speaking, we see this truth throughout the Holy Bible, from the Old Testament to the New Testament. In particular, this mysterious truth is clearly apparent […]

GOD GIVES THE GROWTH AND THE HARVEST

November 1, 2018, 3:58 pm

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As I write this my final article for the Etcetera Newsletter, I am excited and hopeful for Adoration ELCA. There are a variety of reasons for this, but here are just a few of the many good things happening at Adoration…  + Road construction blocking Adoration was finally finished at the end of July + […]