St. Luke Lutheran Church May 12, 2024 Enews Thy Kingdom Come In the third petition of the Lord’s prayer, we invite God’s kingdom to come, but what do we mean when we pray the petition?  When the disciples heard the petition, it probably made sense to them.  They expected Jesus to be a ruling emperor.…

St. Luke Lutheran Church May 5, 2024 Enews Hallowed By Thy Name Putting your faith in the God of the Bible is a little like purchasing something from a website on the internet. You don’t get to “handle” eternal life before buying into it. We simply have God’s Word that putting our faith in Jesus…

St. Luke Lutheran Church April 28, 2024 Enews Lord, teach us to pray! How did you learn to pray? Often, we learn from the examples of people around us. Some of us can remember our earliest childhood memories and the simple prayers our parents used at the table and at the bedside. Others have learned…

St. Luke Lutheran Church April 21, 2024 Enews Prayer: Beyond the Basics Few questions can make churchgoers squirm more than “How’s your prayer life?”  The question can be ambiguous.  Is the question asking how diligently you pray, or is the questioner asking how effective are your prayers? If the question asks about our diligence, do…

St. Luke Lutheran Church April 14, 2024 Enews From Broken to Blessed The sermon last Sunday focused on the distinction between guilt and shame.  Our culture concentrates on a person’s guilt to the point of neglecting the impact of shame on our outlook on life.  Guilt is an objective state of our relationship to God’s…

St. Luke Lutheran Church April 7, 2024 Enews Recovery or Rescue Operation? Have you noticed that there is a subtle terminology shift in describing the response to a disaster?  The initial urgent efforts to save the injured are referred to as a “rescue operation.”  In contrast, the long, slow, careful process of locating and removing…

St. Luke Lutheran Church March 29, 2024 Enews The Greatness of the Day One of my little sisters was just learning to talk when the song “Boney Fingers” started playing endlessly on the radio. She loved the song. When the song would come on the radio, she would stand up and belt out at the…

St. Luke Lutheran Church March 24, 2024 Enews What do you see?  A Palm Sunday Meditation The crowds on that first Palm Sunday wanted a Warrior King, but Jesus came as a suffering Messiah, as one who would die on a cross for the sake of humankind. The crowd missed the point. The crowd thought…

St. Luke Lutheran Church February 25, 2024 Enews The Wrath of God If you are reading along with us in our journey through the Bible, you would have read of several events that you might have found disturbing. I’m talking about the times that God’s reactions to something we might call a mistake seemed out…

St. Luke Lutheran Church February 18, 2024 Enews Blessed Beyond Words Our readings this week included Numbers 6:24-26 which contains the familiar words of blessing spoken at the end of most of our worship services.  We call the blessing the Aaronic blessing and it is often spoken with these words:  “The LORD bless you and…