Month: November 2013

     I wonder how many of you actually think that this is a good thing?  I’ve written before that those who think they know better about just about everything are in charge and just about everything seems to be...

A saw a survey of food agencies and a study they did with local volunteers at local agencies who reported that a pretty good percentage of people coming in for food were known in the community to be people of means.  That is why...

I don’t care much for cake but I like this picture that Luther paints of one cake or one loaf with Christ.   Saint Paul said, “we are all one bread and one drink, for we all participate in one bread and drink.”...

Living by faith changes our relationship to the fury of penalties and the slavery of perfection.  It changes the way we think about time and success.  It is empowering and at the same time humbling. “In classic Lutheran...

This is a copy of the Key to the Common Chest of Wittenberg Germany.  Luther established the concept of a community chest as a answer to the sporadic and un – Christian nature of almsgiving after the turmoil of the...