Sep 4, 2019 | Pastor's Blog
Sunday School classes at LCM resume on September 8. On that day we will give thanks to God during a special rite for our teachers and ask God to bless them in their work. Sunday marks the 239th year of Sunday School classes, if we date our work to the modern Sunday...
Aug 28, 2019 | Pastor's Blog
God asks, as quoted by a distraught Ezekiel, “Is it not enough for you to feed on the good pasture, but you must tread down with your feet the rest of your pasture? When you drink of clear water, must you foul the rest with your feet?” (Ezekiel 34:18) The Amazon...
Aug 14, 2019 | Pastor's Blog
The work of government is holy work, according to Martin Luther. In his explanation to the 4th Commandment, he writes we are to “neither despise nor anger …others in authority, but instead honor, serve, obey, love and respect them.” For 80 years, since 1939, ...
Aug 1, 2019 | Pastor's Blog
The federal government reinstated the death penalty in 1988. According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 60 prisoners are currently on federal death row. Three individuals received the death penalty since its reintroduction in 1988. On July 25, 2019, the...
Jul 23, 2019 | Pastor's Blog
The debate over raising the minimum wage to 15 dollars an hour is intense. Seattle rose its minimum wage to $15 in 2017. Los Angeles City Council approved a $15 minimum wage beginning in 2020. The minimum wage in Illinois will be $15 an hour by 2025. The non-partisan...
Jul 16, 2019 | Pastor's Blog
Pastor Betty Rendon was a doctoral student at the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago and pastor of Emaus Lutheran Church in Racine, Wisconsin. Ten years ago she fled her native Columbia after guerrilla soldiers threatened her life. As a school principal she...
