Fairhaven, MN
February 18, 2021 Dear friends, The anthem for Lent could be these words from the prophet Joel: “Yet even now,” declares the Lord,“return to me with all your heart,with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;and rend your hearts and not your garments.”Return to the Lord, your God,for he is gracious
February 10, 2021 Dear friends, Come to Bible Study on Sundays! The season of Lent begins on Ash Wednesday (church is Wednesday, Feb. 17 @ 7pm). On the 5 Sundays during Lent (starting Feb. 21), we’ll have a Bible Study at the usual time of 10:30am, but it’ll be a
February 3, 2021 Dear friends, In Bible Study on Sunday I keep coming back to something that Peter says early in his letter: “You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called
January 28, 2021 Dear friends, Following up on last week’s note about the young folks here at Concordia, I thought it might be good to fill you in on Confirmation. I’ll write a bit more in a moment about why this matters at all to you, but first here’s how
January 19, 2021 Dear friends, Every year at this time, we prepare some statistics for our Annual Report and for reporting to the Synod. As I was working on this, I rigged up the chart you see below out of curiosity. It shows the distribution of ages here at Concordia.
January 13, 2021 Dear friends, Occasionally I get questions about how to read the Bible. These are great questions, and I’m so happy to hear when folks are interested in renewing their devotion to God’s Word. It can be a formidable task, however, as the book is quite thick, and
January 6, 2021 Dear friends, Listen to Isaiah’s description of Jesus, many hundreds of years before his birth: “Behold my servant, whom I uphold,my chosen, in whom my soul delights;I have put my Spirit upon him;he will bring forth justice to the nations.He will not cry aloud or lift up
December 17, 2020 Dear friends, First, let me invite you to worship on Christmas Eve (7pm) and/or Christmas Day (9am). I’m extending to you the same invitation that sounds out every time you hear Bing Crosby’s mellow voice sing “Adeste Fidelis.” “O Come, All Ye Faithful.” Come and behold the
November 26, 2020 Dear friends, We were made for Thanksgiving. We were not made for second and third and fourth helpings of sweet potatoes covered in brown sugar and Rice Krispies™. We were not made for watching the Cowboys or the Lions while in a partial food-coma. We were not
November 12, 2020 Dear friends, Psalm 90 includes a profound petition: “Teach us to number our days, that we may get a heart of wisdom.” Wisdom is not something reserved for big-brained, highfalutin types. It is not like skills in art or music, where either you have a knack for