This post will likely be a brain dump of sorts, not particularly eloquent or organized, but I woke up at 5 am and just couldn’t get back to sleep. My mind is heavy. Each day that passes, it seems fewer people are willing to stand up. The “powers” are wearing them down. Under threat of losing jobs, people are taking the jaab to keep them. Forget the fact that the evidence is growing that it causes heart damage and neurological…
We are a family without a home. We are not homeless in the conventional definition, but we are without a home in which we can worship with others. We left our church of 8 years about 14 months ago. We started in that church when my oldest was about 9, my youngest daughter was a baby. We left our previous church of 6 years for several doctrinal changes presented by the ELCA that didn’t align with their previous theology and…
Did you know that not only is October 31st Halloween or All Hallow’s Eve, but it is also Reformation Day? Why should you care? Do you enjoy church service in your own language? Do you enjoy singing Hymns in your own language? Do you participate in the Lord’s Supper, or Communion? These are all traditions begun by Luther in the west, when the Catholic Church services were only in Latin (not the native language), Hymns were sung in Latin by…
Have you ever decided, last-minute, to attend a conference that you weren’t even confident you understood the content–but you had recently become familiar with members speaking at the conference and thought “why not?” I really like those speakers, so it should be good. And then, less than a week later of discovering said workshop, you found yourself in this conference and feeling like these people were YOUR PEEPS? Have you ever just felt like Jesus led you to a place…