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Article: So What’s Your Plan?
ByBenHere we are in 2020. My does time fly! In 1998, Community Lutheran Church was engaged in a strategic planning process called “Vision 2020” and here we are. Now I don’t remember the conclusions of that report but that doesn’t matter now. What does matter are the plans we make for the coming year. Maybe…
Article: What Kind of Sabbath is Important?
ByBenI was thinking about this story earlier today and the implications it has for us as worshippers of Christ… I know, I know, I think about weird stuff a lot. One Sabbath Jesus was going through the grain-fields, and as his disciples walked along, they began to pick some heads of grain. The…
Article: The Compassion of Jesus
ByBenJesus went through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness. When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. Matthew 9:35-36 This is a typical Bible passage about…
Article: A Shared Reflection from Las Vegas
ByBenAs most of you know, I am one of the directors of a summer camp experience called Leadership Lab. 17 years ago, my youth director and I took a group of youth from Las Vegas to Leadership Lab. Ever since then, students and staff continue to come to Leadership Lab for a week of faith…
Article: Why I Love CLC
ByBenThere 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…
Article: God First
ByBenI am not an expert in most things. However, I am a theologian. You may even question my expertise in that field of study, yet that is what I am. I look at everything through the lens of God’s word as found in the scripture and through the filter of the living Word of God…
