If you grew up in the church you learned about the shepherd boy David taking on the Philistine giant Goliath in Sunday School. That is where I first heard the story. There are some things we can learn from that story and apply to our lives today. David was the only one brave enough to…
But a Samaritan, as he traveled, came where the man was; and when he saw him, he took pity on him. He went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he put the man on his own donkey, took him to an inn and took care of him. Luke 10:33-34…
During the month of May, we are revisiting our congregation’s mission statement in our preaching. A mission statement is nothing more than a summary of what we believe and our stated goals. Most churches have a mission statement. Fewer churches know what their mission statement says. That is not the case at Community Lutheran Church….
On Palm Sunday (the day Jesus came to Jerusalem for the week of Passover) I preached on the word Christ. If you were with us, I said that we might have lost the plotline because this word remained untranslated in our English language Bibles. Why would translators translate every other word and not “Christ”? The…
