In his Voice article, Pastor Treglown talks about funerals and memorial services, and so in my article I want to talk about another related service: the committal service. At this service, we look at the grave, where the deceased will be...
I have attended a number of funerals in my lifetime and have officiated at more than you can imagine. This past month we have had a number of funerals and memorial services here at Faith Lutheran Church. I have always believed and practiced that...
My first response in any time of need should be to pray and turn it all over to God. However, this has taken me quite a few years to learn! As a young person I prayed to God for protection, and with a grateful heart, knowing that He was...
I was reading through Pastor Treglown’s article about how in this life, we “walk in danger all the way,” and I was struck by his quotation from Isaiah 43. I want to quote it myself, and I want to give a bit before it, too Fear...
Forty years ago, while at Vicarage at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Truman Minnesota, I was given the task of preparing for Lenten Services in 1985. It was a difficult time for the community as the Farm Crisis of the 1980s was in...
The beginning of the year is often the time when we make New Years resolutions. I don’t usually make New Years resolutions because after a while I can’t remember what resolutions I made. This year however, there is a...
We ran into a bit of a conundrum this month with The Voice: usually people get their copy of The Voice around the 7th of the month, and this year Ash Wednesday (the beginning of Lent) falls on the 5th of March—which means that by the time...
The young couple decided to remodel their home. After securing their loan, they began to hire sub-contractors to do the work. Then they ran short of money. The young husband decided that he would put in the carpeting by himself. A look at Youtube...
This past December 2024, we had the opportunity during Advent to study some of the Symbols of Christmas in preparation for the miraculous birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I loved the Advent themes this past year: Nativity Sets: or...
In his article, Pastor Treglown talked about New Year’s traditions—things people do to usher in the new year. Whenever I read about these traditions, I’m always struck by the thing that so many of these traditions have in...
