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Renunciation

(Please be aware that during the season of Lent, these weekly devotions will be arriving in your inbox on Tuesdays.) I mean, really … how often do you get to say these words … “I Renounce Them!” You can’t say “I renounce them!” to the Girl Scout selling cookies outside of Walmart … you simply…

Memes, Mistakes, and Martin Luther

New Day Sermon Reformation Sunday Memes are a good way of telling stories…so here’s a few to tell the story of sin, salvation, and God’s hope for you.

Fooling Yourself

Email Devotion Week Of Lent 4 It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves. (C.S. Lewis from Mere Christianity) Oh so true … so very, very true … isn’t that always the way? We are quick to take…

Saints that are Human

EMAIL DEVOTIONAL week of Pentecost 24 I spent an hour and a half today with ten church members gathered for a Book Club discussion of the book Martin Luther, written by our American Lutheran historian Martin Marty. It was a fascinating discussion as we marveled at the courage of a simple monk…

Is Hell for real?

EMAIL DEVOTIONAL PEntecost 2 The pit of torment shall appear, and opposite it shall be the place of rest; and the furnace of hell shall be disclosed, and opposite it the paradise of delight. (2 Esdras 7:36) Hell is real. I visited there today. It snuck up on me. I spent much of the day working on some…

Are you blind?

New Day Sermon Lent 4 The sermon is a combination of the lesson from John with a drama woven throughout. Do you see yourself in any of the characters? We often complain of others not seeing their bad behavior, but many times we are blinded to our own.

The Sin Box

Email Devotion Pentecost 23 ‘Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax-collector. (Luke 18:10) I was a denizen of Starbucks for most of Friday. I was down in Wilmington, Delaware officiating at a wedding later that evening, and had checked out of my hotel…