Up before sunrise + make our hot chocolate and prep bacon + sunrise walk + drink chocolate while praying Matins, then reading Book of Concor...

O Holy Night

Oh that birth forever blessed When the Virgin full of grace, By the Holy Ghost conceiving Bore the Savior of our race And that Babe, the wor...

…last evening to be with dear friends the Klingers and Van Ulfts and get in some six-handed pinochle (the night ended up one game for the me...

Life has been…challenging! We’re still in the process of moving Cindi’s dad (hereafter, Opa) from the house next door to us, down to a duple...

…about St. Paul’s is the Thranksgiving Day Matins. It’s 9:00 a.m.  Conventional wisdom would tell you that there’s no way you can have a chu...

Today I finished recording through Dec. 19. Am now on break until Dec. 2. I’m looking forward to the days of not writing and catching up wit...

It was truly great to be with the saints up north (Fairgrove Michigan) for “A Holy Conversation” and to celebrate with Grace Lutheran Church...

…so back in early 80’s attended the St Dunstan Liturgical Conference in Queens. Put on by this man. Today he was at conference I was doing i...

…to get this sort of thing and wear it. Well, mom, I did it. It took a little while, but I finally got it done. 

…and hunting in this blog for a particular sermon. I noticed it had a comment and I clicked on it and read it. It about brought tears to my ...

…I’m definitely getting too old for this. We had a WONDERFUL time with the saints of St. Paul Lutheran Church in Cullman, Alabama. And we ar...

I was blessed to serve the Mass (the Divine Service) today with my grandson Henry. His first time serving at the Lord’s altar:

Yes, that’s me. X assigned me the strange name, but if you see my picture there and note the Carnivore trend, then you’ll readily see that i...

…on Friday we headed off to Grace, Little Rock. A seminar on Saturday on the Church’s song (got to meet so many great folks, including Pr. S...

To think that today I enter my 64th year in this world. It didn’t look like I’d make it when I was born. They realized something was quite w...

I had occasion today to send an old blog posting to a friend. It led me to randomly look through old back and forths, and the name of my bud...

“Doc” was President of Concordia College when I attended there. He also was the director of the Festival Chorus (Gerry Coleman—may he also r...

  Sawyer, Flynn, Evangeline, Henry, Felicity, Emmett, Kloe, Chancellor, Griffin, Lydia, Annabelle, Winnie, Oliver. I told Lauren she should ...

Sermon for Trinity 17, 2024 Luke 14:1–11 • Rev. William Gleason Our Collect of the Day gets at the heart of God's word to us this morn...