Category: Regional Pastors

March 1, 2021

Do we really need Lent this year?

  by Marvin Bublitz Here we are in another Lenten Season, that time when, in sombre reflection, we consider our need for the Saviour. As the days hasten on from Ash Wednesday to Good Friday, the worship life of the Church is subdued. Lent is…

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February 18, 2021

70 Vs. 40

by David Haberstock Some of you still remember the 1960s or ‘70s. Maybe you even remember the old one-year series of Bible readings (Lectionary) we used back in those days. Maybe your congregation still uses it. I mention it because about 70 days before Easter—three…

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December 30, 2020

A Newborn Child Can Change The World

  by Marvin Bublitz Ask anyone who has had a baby and you will learn about all the sorts of questions strangers ask. The Lord blessed my wife and me with four children, and I remember strangers in the grocery store asking my wife when…

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December 28, 2020

Prancing Ponies Before the King — A Christmas Day Meditation

  by David Haberstock “Joy to the world, the Lord is come! Let earth receive her King.” – LSB 397 It is accomplished. It was planned from the foundation of the earth (Ephesians 1:3-4). So why do nations still fret (Psalm 2:1)? Why do they…

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October 20, 2020

A Look Back

  by Marvin Bublitz Once again we are at that time when we look back and consider the Reformation. Looking back can be a beneficial exercise. Recently, I have been looking back as my siblings and I have been going through my mother’s house to…

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October 16, 2020

What’s Normal Anymore?

  by Robert Mohns This spring, in the midst of all the challenging questions and chaos brought on by the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic, I found myself driving in the countryside. My attention was drawn to things that I had viewed a hundred times…

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