Declare these things; exhort and reprove with all authority; let no one look down on you. (Titus 2:15) We hope, we pray that the anguish of this past week h...

Moreover, the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven-fold, as the light of seven days, in the day when the...

June 1, 2020 Strive for peace with all people, and for the holiness without which no one will see God. (Hebrews 12:14) When I ponder this verse, the first s...

But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream. (Amos 5:24) The epicenter of the violence in Minneapolis Wednesday and ...

Has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which he has promised to those who love him? (James 2:5) We ...

Ask, and it will be given.... (Matthew 7:7) Jesus makes it sound so easy: Ask. Seek. Knock. For everyone who asks receives! That's a pretty good guarantee....

I began writing these on May 11. They will be posted daily (M-F) from here on. May God continue to hold us together in the Word which has been present from t...

As our dog Jack and I were on our morning walk today, I looked behind one of the houses on our street out into the small nature preserve behind and caught a ...

Paul writes in that memorable verse from Romans 5, “…from suffering comes endurance, and from endurance, character, and from character, hope....” I can’t thi...

Carrying through from Epiphany into Lent, we have been clinging to images of Christ as light: "I am the Light of the world”; “In him was life, and the life w...

I chose this hymn for our first virtual worship service because I think it’s well-known and easy to sing--and for another reason that's explained below. More...

Psalm 23 is certainly one of the most beloved passages in all scripture. With the Lord’s Prayer, it’s really just about the only set of verses that, in a gro...

“Blessed Assurance” has been called the archetypal gospel song. We sang it joyfully in church just a few weeks ago. What different times those were, when we w...

One fear I am hearing from people is whether congregations will survive if we are not allowed to gather indoors for an extended period of time. Will people f...

Our sermon hymn this past Sunday, March 15, was “Christ, Be Our Light.” We do not know when we will be able to meet together again to worship next. In a mont...

Yet I have been the LORD your God ever since the land of Egypt; you know no God but me, and besides me there is no savior. It was I who fed you in the wilder...

📷Beautiful Earth, Dangerous Inhabitants By Rev. Nancy M. Raabe Posted on July 15, 2019 to honor the 50th anniversary on July 20 of Apollo 11’s successful mi...

“Go, My Children, With My Blessing” (ELW 543) The tune of this soulful Welsh folk song, Ar Hyd y Nos, is perhaps best known to a text written by Sir Harold B...

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. “Almighty, merciful God, Father, I give you praise, honor, and thanks that you protect and preserve me, ...