Ambrose Of Milan

For once you were darkness, but now in the Lord you are light. Live as children of light—for the fruit of the light is found in all that is good and right and true. Try to find out what is pleasing to the Lord. – Ephesians 4:8-10

Dear Friends,

As I was preparing worship for Sunday, August 26, I came upon this prayer:

“O Lord, who has mercy upon all, take away from me my sins, and mercifully kindle in me the fire of Your Holy Spirit. Take away from…

Worship Habits

​​​​​​​Dear Friends,

A member of Peace Lutheran sent me a article by Daniel Burke, the CNN Religion Editor. The article, dated August 9, is entitled, “10 Reasons Americans Go To Church -- And 9 Reasons They Don't”

Citing a Pew Research Center study Burke lists the top 10 reasons people go to church are:

1. To become…

Our Stories

For we know only in part, and we prophesy only in part; but when the complete comes, the partial will come to an end. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known. And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 13:9-13

Friends,
Last week in my blog I referred to John Steinbeck’s novel, East Of Eden. I refer to the it again. Toward the end of the novel, Abra and Cal are having a conversation….

Redeemed By Christ The Crucified
And the LORD put a mark on Cain, so that no one who came upon him would kill him. Then Cain went away from the presence of the LORD, and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden. – Genesis 4:15-16

Dear Friends,

I am reading ‘East of Eden’ by John Steinbeck. The novel is inspired by the story of Cain and Abel in Genesis 4. It is the third time I have read the novel. This time through, I am more familiar with the town of Salinas and…