Monthly Archives: March 2009

Text: Mark 10:32-45
Date: Lent V + 3/29/09
Lutheran Church of the Incarnate Word, Rochester Hills, MI

I love the picture and note of solemnity with which St. Mark paints the opening scene of today’s Gospel. For we are, as the first disciples, on a journey. “They were on the road, going up to Jerusalem.” We [...] Continue reading →

Text: John 3:14 / Numbers 21:4-9
Date: Lent IV + 3/22/08
Lutheran Church of the Incarnate Word, Rochester Hills, MI

“Take the snakes away,” the people said. “Lord, take the snakes away,” prayed Moses on behalf of the people. But the Lord didn’t take the snakes away. Instead He gave them the antidote for the deathly [...] Continue reading →

or so I was told when I went in to the hospital last Friday morning and ended up having the balloon angioplasty and a stint in an artery in the heart. The nurse said, remember, this was a small, “minor” heart attack. Yeah, okay. She was trying to help me not be overly upset.
So they [...] Continue reading →

Date: Lent I + 3/1/09
Text: Mark/Matthew Temptation account
Guest Preacher: Rev. Thomas W. Dunseth, Deaf Missions
Ephphatha Deaf Missions; Detroit, Macau (China)
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