Author: Ben

There are some good reasons I love serving at Community Lutheran Church in Las Vegas, Nevada… See, others are puffed up; their desires are not upright— but the righteous will live by God’s faith— Habakkuk 2:4 We live by faith. Not by hate or anger or cruelty towards others. 2. We are regular people with…

Last week we started a new sermon series on Prayers of the Bible. We are using the petitions of sections of the Lord’s Prayer guide us to look at different prayers that reflect the same themes from the Old Testament. For example, in the opening line of the Lord’s Prayer, (“Our Father who art in…

Yes, a lot of hard things have happened to our immediate family in the past two months. No, I will not list them here. Trust me when I tell you, I do not want to relive or experience the trauma of the “summer of 2025” ever again. Here is what I do know, all things…

Most of you know I am a voting member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s (our church body) churchwide assembly. We gathered in Phoenix, AZ for this important work. The “national church” does its business every three years in an assembly format. In between those three years, the ELCA church council acts on behalf…