Pastor Bill's Blog

For some odd reason, maybe it was too much food or good conversation on Thanksgiving, I woke up Friday thinking about order and disorder, Genesis one and Genesis two and three. 

When Ellen Cutting-Schoepf was our music director she would frequently say, "Practice doesn't make perfect; it makes permanent." 

The "America First" mantra makes sense on an intuitive level, for it appeals to the natural self-centeredness within us, which is why it garners votes and receives uproarious applause at rallies. 

Observation of the dialogue (or lack thereof) during and after the recent election has got me focusing on deflection and its cousin projection. 

I happen to be a Lutheran Christian who values the liturgy of the church and is amazed by the way that the liturgy and appointed Biblical words speak into our situation so frequently, even when, frankly, the liturgy knows very little of our situation.