Pastoral Meanderings

Holy Cross Day Quotes I found on my computer: "Question: What does this mean: “Thy rod and Thy staff, they have comforted me” (Psalm ...

When we are finished dealing with the COVID issues and done sorting out whether wearing masks is Gospel or Law, whether Holy Communion is da...

Several times when I have served as vacancy pastor or filled in for someone who was called away, I have received the elaborate instructions ...

Lutherans and vocation go hand in hand and yet too often the sense of that term vocation is trivialized until it merely becomes a matter of ...

The search for order is as old as man.  We want to think that there is an order to things, a rationale, and a reason for everything.  We wan...

Sermon preached on Pentecost 14, Proper 18A, on Sunday, September 6, 2020.      When I was a child in my parents’ home, I heard it over and...

I have a great number of friends with degrees from Notre Dame so I tread on thin ice by singling them out.  Yet the great question faced by ...

There are voices across Christianity insistent upon the need for the Church to be modernized and these voices are sure that failing to moder...

Remembering what I wrote a while ago. . . It has become the buzzword.  Got no signal for your smart phone?  First world problem!  Got no or...

The phrase Mystery of Faith undoubted comes down to us from the first Epistle to St. Timothy where St. Paul uses the expression “holding ...

In 2 Timothy 3:1–5, St. Paul warns the young pastor of what is to come: But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of ...

Over at First Things, Bob Benn e spoke of the change from equal opportunity to equal results.  He mentioned how this was first posited in t...

The remains of a 1,300 year old Christian Church were uncovered in Kfar Kama, in Northern Israel.  It features mosaic floors and three apse...

Sermon for the 13th Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 17A, preached on Sunday, August 30, 2020, by the Rev. Daniel M. Ulrich.     It’s an odd ...

More and more we talk of pastoral care without anything exclusively tied to the word pastoral.  It is as if a therapeutic model has replaced...

CFW Walther once complained that the churches of America looked more like lecture halls than churches, places that appealed to a cerebral Ch...

In comments on a previous post, an anonymous contributor has added the following quotes: “There is much false emotionalism in Lutheran circl...