Trees
Pastor Mark Berlin |
March 12, 2021
Job 14:7 “For there is hope for a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its shoots will not cease. 8 Though its root grow old in the earth, and its stump die in the soil, 9 yet at the scent of water it will bud and put out branches […]
What’s keeping pastors up at night
Pastor Jason Bauer |
March 12, 2021
(A few thoughts from Rev. Dr. Ryan Tinetti, Trinity Arcadia, forwarded to our congregation by Pastor Jason Bauer.) All the pastors around the table were thinking the same thing.I recently had the opportunity to get together with some fellow brothers in ministry and to break bread together—the first time doing so in months. The time […]
Jesus
Pastor Jason Bauer |
March 8, 2020
Christians can sometimes forget that the events that mark the beginning of their faith occurred within the context of real history. As we enter into the season of Lent we will consider the events that founded our faith. Here are some indisputable facts surrounding the advent of our faith. Something happened in the Middle East […]
St. Patrick: The Real Story Tops the Myth.
Pastor Mark Berlin |
March 8, 2020
Ireland’s patron saint escaped slavery and returned to convert the Emerald Isle. St. Patrick did not banish the snakes from Ireland. After the last Ice Age, snakes never returned to the Emerald Isle. Neither is there proof that Patrick used the three-leaf shamrock to impart the doctrine of the Trinity to the 5th-century pagan Irish. […]
The Gospel
Pastor Jason Bauer |
February 9, 2020
We as Lutheran Christians rightly understand that a person is born sinful. This is something that the Scriptures clearly teach, Ps 51:5, Romans 5:12, Eph 4:22 just to cite a few. When one considers what sin and evil is though, one confronts a more difficult question. The theologian John Stott, called sin and evil selfishness. […]