The Pastor’s Pen – Fearless Generosity
Greetings St. John’s Lutheran Church! So Jesus called them and said to them, “You know that among the Gentiles those whom they recognize as their rulers lord it over them, and their great ones...
The Pastor’s Pen – Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones, But Words Will Never Hurt Me
Greetings St. John’s Lutheran Church! Then Jesus began to teach them that the Son of Man must undergo great suffering, and be rejected by the elders,the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed,...
The Pastor’s Pen – Small Gestures Matter
Greetings St. John’s Lutheran Church! went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a solitary broom tree. He asked that he might die: “It is enough; now, O...
The Pastor’s Pen – Do You Have What It Takes? – You Certainly Do!
Greetings St. John’s Lutheran Church! But we have this treasure in clay jars, so that it may be made clear that this extraordinary power belongs to God and does not come from us. We...
The Pastor’s Pen – This Pentecost Embrace the Energy and Possibilities the Holy Spirit has for St. John’s
Greetings St. John’s Lutheran Church! The hand of the Lord came upon me, and he brought me out by the spirit of the Lord and set me down in the middle of a valley;...
The Pastor’s Pen – Easter a Time of Rediscovering how Jesus Continues to Bring us Life
Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book. But these are written so that you may come to believe that Jesus is the...
The Pastor’s Pen – The Lenten Journey!
Greetings! Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me...
The Pastor’s Pen – Connections
Greetings! Then the Lord GOD formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living being. – Genesis, 2:7 We are all...
The Pastor’s Pen – In 2018 Invite Someone To Come And See!
Greetings St. John’s Lutheran Church! Philip found Nathanael and said to him, “We have found him about whom Moses in the law and also the prophets wrote, Jesus son of Joseph from Nazareth.” Nathanael said...
The Pastor’s Pen – Are You Ready To Receive The Christ Child Into Your Heart?
Greetings St. John’s Lutheran Church! In that region there were shepherds living in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night. Then an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory...