Today's author is Prince of Peace member Milt Warkentien. I’ve been volunteering with the youth at PoP since 1988. I’ve now been able to see some of these youth as incredible parents, too. It’s always gratifying to get to see the youth I’ve worked with once they’re older, as there’s no guarantee how life’s journey will treat them, and it’s fun to catch up. I’ve also been fortunate to stay connected with many of them, and it’s always nice when they return to PoP.  I’ve been asked many times how...

Today's author is Prince of Peace member Debbie Jorgens. Text: Genesis 12:1-9 “So Abram went, as the Lord had told him….” (12:4) Can you picture it? Here is 75-year-old Abram, deeply rooted in the city of Haran where he and his wife, Sarai, have lived for decades when suddenly, out of the blue, he hears the Lord telling him to leave Haran and go “…to a land that I will show you.” In the same breath, God makes astounding promises to Abram - promises that include descendants - “I will make of...

Today's author is Prince of Peace's Intentional Interim, Pr. Steve Sylvester. Everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, provided it is received with thanksgiving, for it is sanctified by God’s word and by prayer. [I Timothy 4:4-5] Our first...

Today's author is Prince of Peace member Carol Swanson. Again I share the theological reflections of Marjorie Suchocki from her chapter “Prayers of Corporate Confession,” In God’s Presence: “But while we are often quite aware of individual sins, we are often oblivious...

Today's author is Prince of Peace member Carol Swanson. I share here some of Marjorie Suchocki’s theological reflections from her chapter “Prayers of Personal Confession,” In God’s Presence: Prayers of personal confession refer to naming ourselves before God as we...

Today's author is Prince of Peace's Intentional Interim, Pr. Steve Sylvester. In one of the more traditional versions of the Confession and Forgiveness in our Lutheran liturgy, we say that “We have sinned against [God] in thought, word, and deed, by what we have done...

Today's author is Prince of Peace member Carol Swanson. Read Psalm 104: 1-13. In the Epilogue of In God’s Presence, Marjorie Suchocki’s writes: “God creates and works within an interdependent universe, both interdependent within itself and with God. The universe is...

Today's author is Prince of Peace member Carol Swanson. Three New Testament texts that I find central to who God is are these:“God is love.” (I John 4:16b)“For ‘In [God] we live and move and have our being.’” (Acts17:28a)“Love is patient; love is kind; ...It does not...

Today's author is Prince of Peace's Intentional Interim, Pr. Steve Sylvester. I did my seminary internship in 1988/89 at Trinity Lutheran Church in New York City.  A week before landing at LaGuardia airport, I was sitting on a granite slab in the early pre-dawn...

Today's author is Prince of Peace member Debbie Jorgens. Text: Genesis 12:1-9 “So Abram went, as the Lord had told him….” (12:4) Can you picture it? Here is 75-year-old Abram, deeply rooted in the city of Haran where he and his wife, Sarai, have lived for decades when...

Today's author is Prince of Peace member Debbie Jorgens. Text: Genesis 12:1-9 “So Abram went, as the Lord had told him….” (12:4) Can you picture it? Here is 75-year-old Abram, deeply rooted in the city of Haran where he and his wife, Sarai, have lived for decades when...