Category: Regional Pastors

September 8, 2023

In Praise of Low-Tech Worship

by David Haberstock After the unpleasantness of 2020-2022, we are starting to feel almost back to normal. But what hasn’t left me is the banality of screens. Prior to the pandemic, I was already grappling with too much screen time and its impacts. But the…

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August 16, 2023

Hope Against Hope

by Robert Mohns The Apostle Paul, when writing the letter to the Romans, lifted up our forefather, Abraham, saying of him that “in hope he believed against hope” (Romans 4:18). On its own, this is a rather curious statement. The context, of course, is the…

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June 15, 2023

Age & Fragility

by David Haberstock We all love to complain about aches and pains as we age, at least until the aches and pains are strong enough that we say with the author of Ecclesiastes that the days are such that “I have no pleasure in them”…

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April 24, 2023

Catechism as pattern of the universe

by David Haberstock God our Father created the universe by speaking it into existence, and by doing so He established meaning and order in all things. We live in the aftermath of the modern era, in which society’s understanding of the world is rooted in…

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April 17, 2023

What can I do?

by Marvin Bublitz I found myself asking that question again when I was talking with a friend who had been diagnosed with cancer: I said what I have said countless times to others in 32 years of ministry, “What can I do?”  After we finished…

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April 10, 2023

Why are you weeping?

by Robert Mohns A man holds his two sons closely. Before them is the grave and the casket-enshrined body of his beautiful bride. The wintery winds blow clumps of snow down upon the grieving family, and it seems to the man as though legions of…

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