Pastor Jeff’s Blog

Behold, I make all things new. – Revelation 21:5 I never intended this Church 2.0 blog to become a series. And I really thought I was done last week. But then I read a recent report from Luther [...]

The future is already here; it is just on the margins. – Dave Gibbons For the last few years the media has overflowed with articles and analysis of the decline of the Church in America. If you [...]

For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it. – Matthew 16:25 Last week I blogged about the decline of the Church in America and the need to [...]

And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. For the wine would burst the wineskins, and the wine and the skins would both be lost. New wine calls for new wineskins. – Mark 2:22 Human [...]

There is no longer Jew or Gentile, slave or free, male and female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus. – Galatians 3:28 Last week President Trump and Vice-President Pence visited Minnesota. Not [...]

Love one another the way I loved you. This is the very best way to love. Put your life on the line for your friends. – John 15:13 Like most little boys, I wanted to be a super hero. I wanted to [...]

And among all the parts of the body, the tongue is a flame of fire. It is a whole world of wickedness, corrupting your entire body. It can set your whole life on fire, for it is set on fire by [...]

Let your roots grow down into him, and let your lives be built on him. Then your faith will grow strong in the truth you were taught, and you will overflow with thankfulness. – Colossians 2:7 [...]

For there is one God; there is also one mediator between God and humankind, Christ Jesus, himself human, who gave himself a ransom for all —this was attested at the right time. – 1 Timothy 2:5-6 [...]

As some of you may know, on August 8, 2019 the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) passed a resolution to declare itself a “Sanctuary Denomination” at the Churchwide Assembly. Several [...]