R. Avery Carr was called to serve as pastor of First & Trinity Lutheran Churches in Iron River, MI.
Traditional Sermon, Christ The King Sunday In 1928, Elie Wiesel was born in Transylvania. Fifteen years later he and his family would be deported by the Nazis to Auschwitz where his mother and younger sister would perish. He would later study in Paris and become a journalist where he was encouraged…
Traditional Sermon, Pentecost 23 So things are not always what they appear. Sometimes due to our own preconceptions and prejudices we can completely misread the world around us. For example, at one point in history, because of humanities narrow perspective from our limited knowledge, we believed that the world was flat and that if you traveled…
Pentecost 21 New Day Sermon
New Day Sermon Pentecost 19 We all have our stories and the truth of our lives lie more in what cannot be seen than what can. The important part of our stories are not the troubled relationships but rather the reconciliation, the forgiveness, or the lack thereof…
Traditional Sermon, Pentecost 9 Shema Israel Adonai Eloheinu, Adonai echad… “Hear O’ Israel, the Lord is our God; the Lord is one.” This is the first line of the prayer known as the Shema, that Pastor Pretz mentioned in his sermon last week. The Shema is recited or chanted twice daily (morning & night) by…
