Friends, if I could give you one piece of advice today, it would be to stop skimping on your friendships.Take it from me, someone who runs busy...

Friends, if you want to make a difference today — right now! — seek out the people in your community who feel unseen, unsafe and alone … and pour...

I love the gospels’ regular use of seeds as metaphors because so much of our faith life is all about acting on belief alone, hoping that one day...

A little imagination theater … confirmation style.“Pastor, is it OK to hate certain people?” a struggling confirmation student asks.“That’s a heavy...

My heavens, what a difficult couple of weeks it’s been. Amen?The Charlie Kirk assassination dropped a match into what was already a box of...

While the names of the schools or churches or entertainment venues change, it's inevitable that our news feeds annually will fill with headlines...

As I slowly cruised the lakeshore, a tradition I do before heading to my favorite fishing spot on the lake, this past week, I was startled to see...

This past week I celebrated my first anniversary as CEO of a large, faith-based mission that operates an emergency shelter, food pantry and...

A  devotion by a favorite author that I religiously read daily jarred me to an awakening earlier this week.It reminded me that often when we are...

The other day I stopped by our tax guy’s office, and not surprisingly a Bible study discussion broke out.This isn’t the opening line to a bad joke...

The other night I was leaving work, just as the evening sun was taking its turn downward. Another 12 hour day at the emergency shelter, a typical...

I’ve written about our 3-year-old husky mix rescue before. About his anxieties which make him seem less than friendly, and frankly which have...

This past weekend our synod held its annual assembly. Hundreds of Lutherans journeying across northwest Minnesota to a Lutheran liberal arts...

“There but for the grace of God go I.”That’s the message that ricocheted through my conscience as I stared up at the revolving red and blue lights...

The importance of Easter to Christians cannot be understated.After all, the festival commemorates the day that Jesus rose from the dead, conquering...