Susan's Pendulum

Paul has this big ol' discussion about how he can't act/think as holy as he desires (Romans 7) and how he just keeps sinning even th...

From what we'd heard about Marley and Me , the movie was appropriate for entire families, including little kids. Yes, there's the s...

Woe is us! The church is plagued with bad practice and bad doctrine. Maybe we could solve it by electing the right guy as synodical presid...

The last week I've been freezing. It had been especially warm, so why the chills? I'm suspicious that the warmth at work might be ...

A customer came in today. I've waited on the mom but never the daughter. I knew the daughter's name without being told and called ...

I stole some pictures from Jessie's facebook: Mary, Jessica, Olivia Andrew and Bryce

In the Divine Service, after the congregation confesses sin, the pastor says, "Upon this your confession, I ... forgive you all your si...

I finally heard the answer to a question I've been wondering about for over forty years. In Mark 1, there was that demon crabbing abou...

On the way home from work, I wanted so badly to open the sun roof ... which doesn't exist on the car I was driving.  And this afternoon ...

So after reading the story to us from Matthew 14, Pastor asks the school-children, "Could Peter walk on the water?" Hannah answe...

A man I know is sweet, gentle, kind, and patient.  He has some mental illness, but he is no more ashamed of coping with his health than if h...

The story this past Sunday (in the three-year series) was about Jesus' preaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.  They were all astonishe...

Superficiality makes the world go round. I've never been keen on that.  I like real.  I like genuine.  I like honest.  But that requir...

If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me. (Luke 9:23) This is our verse f...

If anyone desire to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me.   (Luke 9:23) If we have to take u...

Cedric the Saxon, to Athelstane (only remaining descendent of the royal Saxon line), remembering the days when their prison was the Great Ha...

Revamped website -- audio of sermons is now available.  (Top of my listening list is January 1 and January 8.  Oh, and probably today'...

Church is ending.  Time to leave.  Little Miss Punky holds up her finger, says "Here, Nanna, you hold my booger," wipes the booge...

Many segments of Christendom care a lot about sanctification.  They often spend more time talking about how a person becomes holy than procl...

For some unknown reason, out of the blue, one of my co-workers begged me (out of the bosses' earshot) to say a naughty word on Tuesday. ...