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2018-05-27

Holy Trinity Sunday

I remember when I was a boy, getting to know other children in my classes at school. Eventually, after talking about what we liked to play with, Legos for me. Or what sports were our favorites, for me American football, specifically the Minnesota Vikings.  Or, how many brothers or sisters we had, I have two […]

2017-06-11

Holy Trinity Sunday

I grew up at Trinity Lutheran Church of Minnehaha Falls in Minneapolis, Minnesota. We called it, ‘Trinity’ for short.  At some point I asked my parents what the word ‘trinity’ meant, I had heard it in church and knew that it was the name of my church, so I wanted to know its meaning.  I […]

2017-06-10

Pentecost

Today we celebrate the coming of the Holy Spirit into the lives of Christ’s followers on the 50th day after his death. And what a fifty days they were for Christ’s disciples.  First they experienced Jesus’ joyous resurrection, then those happy days of seeing the risen Lord in their midst which were too quickly followed […]

2017-05-21

If you love me

Two weeks ago my wife Emily and I went to a conference for pastors and their spouses. All of us attendees are serving English speaking International churches in Europe and the Middle East and meet up once a year to learn, grow, and support one another.  This year the conference was held between the cities […]