Author: Rev. Bernie Seter

One of the great joys of my life is baptizing a baby. I squeeze their legs against my left elbow and hip and they are resting on my forearm. Their head is cradled in my left hand and I can see their face when I pour the water...

  It has been several weeks now and I keep hearing the imperative that I “get some rest”. It is as if it’s a quest that I should be on; a search for something that seems to be elusive. It is, stated that way, a job to be...

“The custom of holding a crucifix before a dying person has kept many in the Christian faith and has enabled them to die with a confident faith in the crucified Christ.” By His prophet Moses God told the obstinate and...

  A friend gave us this handmade sign of the Hebrew word “shalom”. It means “peace” of course, but as with so many things there is so much more.  We have peace because we have a Lord. To have Jesus...

  Historian Tom Holland claims that Martin Luther would have been great on social media.  Most of us that read Luther got that, but Holland writes that “Luther… displayed a breathtaking command of all the qualities required...