Category: Pastor’s Weekly Message

Friends: “We need the things we cannot see We see the things we cannot be We know the things we can’t understand We stand in wonder not knowing the plan.”      Rev. Billy...

LSTC community rallies around one of its own: Betty Rendón   Betty Rendón, an LSTC alumna who was serving Emaus Lutheran Church in Racine, Wis., was deported to Colombia in the early morning hours of May 28,...

Friends: “From now onwards we will not consider anyone by human standards, even if we were once familiar with Christ according to human standards, we do not know Christ in that way any longer. ...

Friends: “If the soul could have known God without the world, the world would never have been created.”  Meister Eckhart The gift of the Light Globe from Pr. Margareta and family was well received...

Friends: “What is REAL?  Real isn’t how you are made.  It’s something that happens to you.  It takes a long time.  But once you are Real you can’t become unreal again.  It lasts for...

Friends: “The living are few and the dead abound in this life — the dead being those who never let go and can’t walk away from themselves into love and laughter!”  Christian Bobin Following...

Friends: “We come at last to the dark and enter in.  We are given bodies newly made out of their absence from one another in the light of the ordinary day.  We com to...

Friends: “To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one person’s life.”  TS Elliot ~ Holy Week begins this Sunday with Palm/Passion Sunday....

Friends: “King Hsuan of Chou heard of Po Kung-I, who was reputed to be the strongest man in the whole kingdom.  The King was dismayed when they met, since Po looked so weak. When...

Friends: “Turn, turn and return to the holy, the dark illuminating night. Over there  – far and close by lies the world, sunken in a pit….like a desert, a lonely place. In my heart...