Susan's Pendulum

Sunday, August 10, 2025

About Good Stories

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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....
Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Book Review -- TerKeurst

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"It's Not Supposed To Be This Way: finding unexpected strength when disappointments leave you shattered" is another book by Ly...
Monday, April 14, 2025

Book Review -- TerKeurst

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"The Best Yes: Making Wise Decisions in the Midst of Endless Demands" was not an impressive book, but it was okay.  Lysa TerKeurst...
Sunday, April 13, 2025

The Law of God Is Good and Wise

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I've been reading a book by a non-Lutheran writer, who quoted a non-Lutheran preacher (Levi Lusko): When God says "don't,"...
Saturday, April 12, 2025

The Nice People Here

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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...
Monday, December 30, 2024

2024 Reading List

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January The Saints of Whistle Grove, by Schuermann Feb/March Seasons of My Life,  by Hannah Hauxwell April Silver Linings,  by Macomber Swe...
Monday, February 12, 2024

2023 Reading List

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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 ...
Wednesday, January 18, 2023

2022 Reading List

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January:   Bright Valley of Love , by Edna Hong  *** Dashing through the Snow,  by Debbie Macomber Mildred Budge in Cloverdale, by Daphne Si...
Wednesday, January 19, 2022

2021 Reading List

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Surviving the Storms: Memoirs of David P. Scaer -- finished April 2. The Baritone Wore Chiffon , by M. Schweizer -- finished April 28. The ...
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Sunday, December 12, 2021

Dates of Easter

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            Western Church           Eastern Church 2022:     April 17                     April 24 2023:     April 9                      A...
Tuesday, January 19, 2021

2020 Reading List

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  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...
Thursday, October 15, 2020

2018-19 Reading List

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2018 33 Going on Girlfriend, by Monson -- January 3 34 Going on Bride, by Monson -- May 27 He Remembers the Barren, by Schuermann -- Jan ...
Saturday, July 11, 2020

How to Write a Hymn

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Praying Psalm 135 this morning, I kept being distracted by the lines lifted from elsewhere in Scripture. Verse 1 comes from Psalm 113. V...
Saturday, January 12, 2019

Cleaving

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"Cleaving" is like "flammable."  It can mean the opposite of itself. Sometimes cleaving means clinging, hanging on, be...
Saturday, April 14, 2018

Moses

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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...
Friday, April 13, 2018

Healing the Lame Man

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

Christian "Culture" in Different Lands

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Sometimes we look at the way Christians worship in other lands and think, "That's African Christian culture" or "That...
Sunday, April 01, 2018

What Do You Guard?

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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...
Saturday, March 17, 2018

A Mighty God

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In the Reproaches on Good Friday, we pray, "Holy and mighty God." On Good Friday.  When God hangs on a cross, dying. Mighty  ...
Friday, February 02, 2018

Fresh Abreva

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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...
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