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[Most weeks, I share a little background on the Bible lessons around which worship will be built the following Sunday at Saint Matthew Luthe...

but in Paul Tillich's phrase " wholly other ." Through Christ we know that God understands our every weakness and is slow to ...

[This message was shared during worship with the people of Saint Matthew Lutheran Church in Logan, Ohio, this morning.] Mark 1:21-28 There a...

Al, an acquaintance of mine, went out one evening with a group of people from the church he pastored. Later, a close friend, Bill, who was p...

In yesterday's State of the State message, Governor Ted Strickland unveiled his program to reform public schools in Ohio . Included was ...

There's a power outage affecting 98% of the households of the county in which I live, including ours. Hocking County, Ohio isn't alo...

[This was shared during worship with the people of Saint Matthew Lutheran Church in Logan, Ohio, this morning.] Jonah 3:1-5, 10 Pastor and w...

A member of the congregation I serve as pastor sent the link to this amazing video to me. It showcases some NFL players showing off, trying ...

Charlie Lehardy talks about Barack Obama's inauguration . Ivy shares a hymn written by a Lutheran pastor in commemoration of the new pre...

[This is my friend Glen VanderKloot's daily emailed inspiration for today.] Thought for the Day To be a Christian without prayer is no m...

Is Islamic fundamentalism Turkey's future, with secularism, what we in the West would call democratic pluralism, its past? Apparently se...

It appears so . By disallowing much in the way of journalist-imbedding with their fighting units, Israeli government officials clearly tried...

The Obama Administration yesterday began circulating a draft executive order that would close down the Guantanamo Bay detention center. But ...

This is the dream from which I awakened this morning. I've apparently become a trucker hauling heavy equipment to be used by a road cons...

As I was preparing my sermon for this coming Sunday, I ran across a piece I wrote nearly four years ago with that title. Here is a link to ...

Most weeks, I present a bit of something about one or more of the Bible lessons that we'll be using in worship on the following Sunday a...

The entire speech by Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. is here .

Here . Please continue to keep this wonderful pastor and blogger in your prayers. As you pray for David, don't forget to also pray that ...

is torture, says Attorney General-designate Eric Holder . I agree and it's wrong. Period. (And no, I don't think that in saying this...

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set I go into the other room and read a book.” (Groucho Marx)