Posts with the category “pastorspen”

From Bancroft Register Newspaper Article, published on March 6th. Text: Matthew 6...  Read More

Our Wednesday, 9:30 a.m. Bible study at Trinity just ventured into an ongoing study on Biblical interpretation. The length and diversity of literary styles in the Bible is enough to make it an intimi...  Read More

On this the Nativity of our Lord We sing praise to the one of blessed birth With a joy that extends past common words To God Himself, made man to dwell on earth....  Read More

This Pastor's Pen article continues Pastor Cowell's "Hymn of the Month" series in which he shares a brief commentary on the theology and history behind some of the hymns we enjoy singing from the Luth...  Read More

While electronics, toys, and ugly sweaters might be stuck in a shipping container off the coast of California this December, remember that Christ is never in short supply. In fact, the supply chain b...  Read More

This Pastor's Pen article continues Pastor Cowell's "Hymn of the Month" series in which he shares a brief commentary on the theology and history behind some of the hymns we enjoy singing from the Luth...  Read More

This Pastor's Pen article continues Pastor Cowell's "Hymn of the Month" series in which he shares a brief commentary on the theology and history behind some of the hymns we enjoy singing from the Luth...  Read More

Harvest is here, and so begins our season of thanksgiving to the Lord of the harvest Himself! Sights of combines, grain trucks, and emptying fields can direct our minds toward God and His love for us...  Read More

This Pastor's Pen article continues Pastor Cowell's "Hymn of the Month" series in which he shares a brief commentary on the theology and history behind some of the hymns we enjoy singing from the Luth...  Read More

Our world is pretty crazy right now, isn’t it? It seems almost cliché to say that anymore. It used to seem like it was only in specific or unusual times that the world seemed crazy and that it would g...  Read More

Our hymn of the month for August is a hymn from the Christian Home and Education section of our hymnal: Oh, Blest the House. ...  Read More

Our hymn of the month for July is one in a collection of twelve hymns written by Reverend Samuel Stone in 1866. Stone wrote these hymns in order to teach the meaning of the Apostles’ Creed to his par...  Read More

This Memorial Day the Christian Church thanks God for the men and women of our military who have given their lives in service to our nation. Holy Scripture tells us that our soldiers are instruments ...  Read More

Graduation day is a day for celebration. It can also, though, be a time for personal reflection: both for the students who are graduating as well as for those of us who are looking back on our own gr...  Read More

Our hymn of the month for May is one of the most significant hymns in the history of the Christian Church. ...  Read More

This Pastor's Pen article continues Pastor Cowell's "Hymn of the Month" series in which he shares a brief commentary on the theology and history behind some of the hymns we enjoy singing from the Luth...  Read More

I (Pastor Cowell) love the hymns of our hymnal. I love talking about them, teaching and learning from them, and singing them (not a little out of tune) to the praise and glory of God. It is to this ...  Read More

Shrove Tuesday, or Mardi Gras (French for Fat Tuesday), is always the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday. Most people think of Fat Tuesday as a day of wild debauchery before the drudgery of Lent begins. H...  Read More

January is a month of newness. A new year begins and with it comes all sorts of New Years resolutions. Maybe you made some this year or maybe you’ve made them in the past.  As long as you’ve made at l...  Read More