Podcast Episodes

Come Before Winter

Paul was in the winter of his life. He knew his time on earth was short. He was feeling lonely and forlorn. Only Luke was with him. He pleads with T…

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Always With Us

Good friends are a blessing, yet we know that humans, no matter how well-intentioned, are imperfect and fallible.

God, however, is faithful ALL the …

1 year, 9 months ago

The Biggest Present

The gifts under the Christmas tree flooded the room. Everyone spotted the large box, wrapped in red holly berry paper, standing upright against the …

1 year, 9 months ago

What? Me Worry?

In the Lutheran grade school I attended, I always had a part in the school’s Christmas Eve service about the birth of Jesus. Back in the 1950s, we h…

1 year, 9 months ago

The Christmas Exchange

Christmas Eve was the children’s service. Our parents had us 8 kids open gifts before church so we would have new clothes to wear. We gave simple gi…

1 year, 9 months ago

“God With Us”

Memories of Christmas Eve: Around 1950, speaking from the pulpit of Trinity, Indianapolis, in my role as little Isaiah at our Children’s Christmas E…

1 year, 9 months ago

Christmas Presence

Every year, as Christmas approaches, I ask my daughters to provide wish lists for their family members, so I know how to shop for their gifts. We al…

1 year, 10 months ago

Life

Read the verse, “My times are in your hand” (Psalm 31:15). Is there any statement, anywhere, in any context, truer than that one?

I am a retired pas…

1 year, 10 months ago

Thank you, Thomas!

While reading through a Christmas supply catalog, I noticed a nativity set with the description, “The Way in the Manger.” At first, I thought it was…

1 year, 10 months ago

Our Ageless God

While reading through a Christmas supply catalog, I noticed a nativity set with the description, “The Way in the Manger.” At first, I thought it was…

1 year, 10 months ago