Mar 8, 2022 | Sights and Insights
Sights and Insights O God, you are my God, I seek you, my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water. – Psalm 63:1 (NRSV) We have now made it a few weeks into Lent. Have you taken on a Lenten disciple this year?...
Mar 7, 2022 | Sights and Insights
Sights and Insights I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; that I know very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. – Psalm 1139:14-15 (NRSV) Those...
Feb 28, 2022 | Sights and Insights
Pastor Eric J. Trozzo Purgatory? The Seven Deadly Sins? Being virtuous? Those are not Lutheran things to talk about, are they? Yet this is precisely what will be talked about this Lent. I will be leading a series, The Christian Life and the Seven Deadly Sins, as an...
Feb 21, 2022 | Sights and Insights
Sights and Insights When Jesus saw his ministry drawing huge crowds, he climbed a hillside. Those who were apprenticed to him, the committed, climbed with him. Arriving at a quiet place, he sat down and taught his climbing companions. – Matthew 5:1-2 (The Message) Two...
Feb 14, 2022 | Sights and Insights
Sights and Insights Devotion for Feb. 15, 2022 They will be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, to display his glory. They shall build up the ancient ruins, they shall raise up the former devastations; they shall repair the ruined cities, the...
Feb 7, 2022 | Sights and Insights
Sights and InsightsDevotion for Feb. 8, 2022 God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and settle there. Make an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.” So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, “Put away...