Month: January 2017
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Pastor on Retreat – Keeping the Sabbath
Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a sabbath to the LORD your God. ~Exodus 20:8-9 You would think as a pastor I would be really good at keeping the Sabbath, I mean, the main goal in keeping the…
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Epiphany – Opening our Eyes to God
When they saw that the star had stopped, they were overwhelmed with joy. ~Matthew 2:10 The liturgical (church) season has changed once again. We are out of Advent, out of Christmas, and into the season of Epiphany. This is one of those few times during the year when my hair doesn’t match the stoles and paraments.…
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Pastor Explains – Why I Wear the Collar
I’ve been thinking a lot about the clerical collar I wear these last few months while at Bethany Lutheran. Before I was called to be the pastor here, I rarely wore my clerical collar, mostly because of the contexts I was in. At my internship site I was there to learn from my supervisor and…
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A Revelation New Year
And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “See, the home of God is among mortals. He will dwell with them; they will be his peoples, and God himself will be with them; he will wipe every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; mourning and crying and pain will be no more,…