As we enter into the 40 days of Lent, we are reminded of the 40 days Jesus was tempted in the wilderness and are reminded of the 40 years that the Israelites wandered in the wilderness. The time in the wilderness is a not an easy time, but it is a time of learning who […]
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A Quarterly Newsletter for the People of Zion Lutheran Church
What Cant Wait?!
When preparing the theme for this newsletter, Linda Sterner, our producer and editor extraordinaire, asked if the title should be a question or a statement. I mistakenly thought the theme was a statement, saying “What Can’t Wait.” What Linda’s question has forced me to realize is that it is both a question and a statement.
Read NewsletterGod’s Work, Our Hands
One of the basic ways to understand Christianity is that God comes to people through people. God in Jesus chose to become human to bring God’s presence to us through a human. Jesus came as the full embodiment of God in human form so that we could understand the power, depth, and breadth of God’s […]
Read NewsletterResurrection Hope
While many think of Easter as a one-day event to remember and celebrate the resurrection of Jesus, for the Christian church it is a fifty-day season beginning with Easter Sunday and ending with Pentecost Sunday. Fifty days! I cannot imagine sustaining our Easter celebration for fifty days!
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Growing up, I attended a Catholic school that was run by nuns. Not the smack-your-knuckles-with-a-ruler kind of nuns, but kind, loving, and joyful nuns. Some of my classmates would joke that Sister Marie-Therese never sat down; she was always on the move.
Read NewsletterLiving the In Between
We spend much of our lives in between. In between jobs, in between stages of life. There are good in-between times: waiting for a birth, or for a wedding day. There are also more difficult in-between times: waiting for a diagnosis, or for a job offer that does not seem to come. Even in those […]
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In September, our worship theme will focus on the New Testament book of James, which is the epistle reading for the Revised Common Lectionary (the set of prescribed readings for worship) for this season. Some think that James has a unique place in the Bible for its nononsense, practical, proverbial wisdom. Others follow Martin Luther’s […]
Read NewsletterEmbracing Our Identity
We identify ourselves in a lot of different ways: a parent, spouse, son or daughter, sibling, friend. We may identify ourselves by a career or a hobby—and of course, most personally, by a given name. Every organization, whether it’s a school, place of business, or church also is identified in different ways.
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