Susan's Pendulum

Katie Schuermann led a session at the CCLE conference where we looked at stories.  I need a handy place to keep my notes from the session....

"It's Not Supposed To Be This Way: finding unexpected strength when disappointments leave you shattered" is another book by Ly...

"The Best Yes: Making Wise Decisions in the Midst of Endless Demands" was not an impressive book, but it was okay.  Lysa TerKeurst...

I've been reading a book by a non-Lutheran writer, who quoted a non-Lutheran preacher (Levi Lusko): When God says "don't,"...

My daughter works at a restaurant.  As far as the employees knew, a new guy became general manager last fall.  Well, it turned out that, a c...

January The Saints of Whistle Grove, by Schuermann Feb/March Seasons of My Life,  by Hannah Hauxwell April Silver Linings,  by Macomber Swe...

January Mrs Entwhistle: Once You're Over the Hill, You Pick Up Speed,  by Reidy Miss Budge in Love,  by Simpkins February How Green Was ...

January:   Bright Valley of Love , by Edna Hong  *** Dashing through the Snow,  by Debbie Macomber Mildred Budge in Cloverdale, by Daphne Si...

Surviving the Storms: Memoirs of David P. Scaer -- finished April 2. The Baritone Wore Chiffon , by M. Schweizer -- finished April 28. The ...

            Western Church           Eastern Church 2022:     April 17                     April 24 2023:     April 9                      A...

  The Theology of the Cross, by H. Sasse (in We Confess Jesus Christ) Richest Man in Babylon, by G. Clason A Christian Guide to Mental Illne...

2018 33 Going on Girlfriend, by Monson -- January 3 34 Going on Bride, by Monson -- May 27 He Remembers the Barren, by Schuermann -- Jan ...

Praying Psalm 135 this morning, I kept being distracted by the lines lifted from elsewhere in Scripture. Verse 1 comes from Psalm 113. V...

"Cleaving" is like "flammable."  It can mean the opposite of itself. Sometimes cleaving means clinging, hanging on, be...

We always think of Moses as the Law-giver.  It's true.  The law did come to us from God through Moses.  But what else did Moses do? He...

Peter and John got themselves arrested when they healed the paralytic (Acts 3) and preached to the people about the forgiveness of sins.  It...

Sometimes we look at the way Christians worship in other lands and think, "That's African Christian culture" or "That...

You cut your finger while making dinner.  It hurts.  For the next few days, you turn the doorknobs and brush your teeth with the sore finger...

In the Reproaches on Good Friday, we pray, "Holy and mighty God." On Good Friday.  When God hangs on a cross, dying. Mighty  ...

Abreva heals cold sores. A person who gets cold sores the size of Rhode Island may think that she's built up a resistance to the medic...