Finding Easter Peace
Wasn’t worship on Easter Sunday great! We had three great services. A wonderful Easter breakfast. Fantastic special music, strings, and brass!
Wasn’t worship on Easter Sunday great! We had three great services. A wonderful Easter breakfast. Fantastic special music, strings, and brass!
Many years ago, there was an East Coast pastor, Pastor Wright, who paid a visit to a small, Midwestern religious college. He stayed at the home of the college president, who also served as a professor of physics and chemistry.
One of the most enjoyable aspects of my job as pastor is worship planning. Worship is such an important part of our congregational life that we couldn’t really imagine our church gatherings without it.
The words to one of the most beloved of all Easter hymns, words that Handel put to music in his oratorio, Messiah, words that you will see on at least one gravestone in a walk through a cemetery come from perhaps an unlikely source.
We yearn for the finish lines of life! When we are young, we want to be done growing up.
Once upon a time, there lived an evil king. He ruled over the people for 55 years. Evil, perhaps, is too kind of a word to describe him.
A comedian once joked that when men reach middle age, they dive deeply into one of two things…either war history or smoking meats.
There are a multitude of incredible rescue stories that have captivated the world over the last number of years.
When I look at my sermon theme, I don’t know that I could ever imagine myself saying those words to someone else.
I doubt that Mary Wells had any clue where her song, “My Guy,” would go when she recorded it back in 1964. Perhaps she thought it would make it to the top of the charts in 1964, which it did.
Eastside Evangelical Lutheran Church and School
2310 Independence Lane
Madison, WI 53704