The Pastor’s Pen – Liturgical Calendar: Start of Year
Greetings St. John’s Lutheran Church! In the time of King Herod, after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, asking, “Where is the child who has...
Christmas Eve 2018 – Full Service – St Johns Lutheran Richlandtown PA
The Pastor’s Pen – Advent is a Time to Stop, Look, Listen for God and Connect With Our Brothers and Sisters
Greetings St. John’s Lutheran Church! Jesus said: “There will be signs in the sun, the moon, and the stars, and on the earth distress among nations confused by the roaring of the sea and...
The Pastors Pen – Fearless Generosity In Action!
Greetings St. John’s Lutheran Church! We want you to know, brothers and sisters, about the grace of God that has been granted to the churches of Macedonia; for during a severe ordeal of...
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...