“He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and there will be no more death or sorrow or crying or pain. All these things are gone...

"I'm a little pencil in the hands of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world." ~Mother Theresa God has given us all a...

In helping Middleton recover from the 2018 flood, the first thing I learned is that everything is connected. Things that had been...

What else can go wrong?… What will go right! It seems like this year, each day, week, and month brings new challenges. We cannot escape...

As a kid, I would lose sleep worrying about the environment. To be fair, I’d lose sleep worrying about my multiplication tables and what...

“Everyone shall sit under their own vine and fig tree, and no one shall make them afraid. They’ll be safe in the nation we’ve made.” from...

Finding one’s purpose in life can be easy for some and challenging for others. While I always knew I loved children, I wasn’t always...

As always, I was running late. The only difference this time was that I was actually running. I had woken up on time, but stayed in bed...

“No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who...

“Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful.” Colossians 3:15...

Below is Psalm 25:1-9. I encourage us to offer this reading as our prayer for today. The saying is probably true “a student is only as...

When I was completing my second full-time interim at English Lutheran in LaCrosse someone gave me the book The Land Remembers by Ben...

POW/MIA recognition day is commemorated on the third Friday of every September, today, a date that's not associated with any particular...

“We know love by this, that he laid down his life for us—and we ought to lay down our lives for one another. How does God’s love abide in...

Psalm 34:4 - I sought the Lord and He answered me, and delivered me from all my fears. I used this message below for the Stephen Ministry...

As a pastor I have learned much about faith from books that I have applied to my ministry. One author that has taught me about faith, and...

For much of my life I had an understanding about faith that was really little-to-no understanding at all. It was a perception that faith...

My mom loves to recount the story of a Sunday School lesson from when I was a preschooler at Trinity Lutheran Church in Stevens Point,...

Matthew 17: 1 Six days later, Jesus took with him Peter and James and his brother John and led them up a high mountain, by themselves. 2...

It was 1982, and I was at Asilomar, a conference center by the ocean in the dramatic Monterey area about 75 miles south of San Francisco,...