Sometimes the sermon has little to do with what God wants to communicate. I am starting the practice of having a person share what God has been doing during the week at our worship services. This is a bit new for Lutherans. Some people call it testimony. We are only into the second week of doing this in our congregation. I had asked a young man, a high school graduate a … [Read more...] about When the sermon is not the message
Beginning
Beginning
It's about time to start joining all you bloggers out there, especially folks at St. Paul Lutheran. This is my attempt at a beginning, and here is my purpose. A large portion of my week's work is preparing and praying about the week's message. But a Sunday's sermon is not about my ideas but about all of us wrestling with God's word in our lives. If anything real happens on … [Read more...] about Beginning