St. Matthias Lutheran Church (ELCA)

On Thursday, May 13th the Church marks this 40th day following the resurrection of Jesus as the time to commemorate our Risen Lord’s ascension into heaven. On this day, when the Risen Christ met his disciples “as he had told them,” Jesus leaves his disciples with a commission, a blessing and a promise of the [...]

On Sunday, the first of six Sabbath days that we will gather for worship during this Lenten tide, we heard the story of the Temptation of Jesus in the wilderness. Luke writes, “Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness, where for forty days [...]

An Invitation to a Holy Lent It’s February! Ever since 1994 I have been unable to shake the memory of going out into that extraordinarily cold winter morning of February 18. It was snowing, the wind was blowing and the temperature was a brisk 48° below zero not counting wind chill.  My three day sabbatical [...]

Living Healthy, Living Well We are always living in “in between times.” As Christians we live “already but not yet,” meaning that while our justification has been fully accomplished in Christ, we long nonetheless for God to bring to completion the good work Christ first began in us. Martin Luther once penned these words about [...]

Punctuated by Holy Presence Once upon a time, actually more than once, it happened that I was chosen from amongst my peers to serve as chaplain of a particular group or organization. As I reflect on it I’m not sure that I had a whole host of competition for the job, but let me have [...]

“Love Has Found A Way” In one of his early books, author Robert Fulghum, shared a little story of the neighborhood children who were playing hide-n-seek in the yard around his house. He recalls the fun of joining in the game as a youth himself. He asked, “Did you have a kid in your neighborhood [...]

St. Jerome, in his commentary on Galatians (Jerome, Comm. in ep. ad. Gal., 6, 10), tells the well-loved story that John the Evangelist continued preaching in Ephesus even when he was in his 90s. John was so weakened by old age that the people had to carry him into the Church in Ephesus on a [...]