Author: Ben

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…

Last week, I attended my last church council meeting for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. My term is coming to an end in July. Community Lutheran Church is a part of the ELCA (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America) and I am honored to serve on the church council for the national church body. In…