The Day of Pentecost
I am thinking in words. I am writing words. You are reading words. You are ‘hearing’ them – thinking them and about them. This is a way of communication. You know what I am thinking or feeling – what I want to say. Can…
Tag: Pentecost
Last Sunday of the Church Year
I went out on Thursday night to go into Mildenhall to discover that the A1101 was closed en-tering Mildenhall for road works. I took a detour via Eriswell and got to my destination. Later when getting into the car I said to the people…
The Twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost
My guess is that we’ve ground our teeth at hearing an automated reply to our phone calls; become rather anxious at the robots that can take our money by voice or by pressing buttons; and roll our eyes at the muzak we hear as…
The Twenty-second Sunday after Pentecost
Part of my work at Westfield House is marking. I suppose most teachers do so. Students expect it and generally want feedback. It is easier when assessing content. A tick for ‘Jesus was born in Beth-lehem’ and a cross for ‘Jesus was born in…
The Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Lutherans believe that God continues to make his world go round with people in all seg-ments of society doing their ‘bit’ so that everyone can be fed and clothed, enjoy arts and leisure, and live in peace and justice. Consequently we say that Christians…
The Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Kokoda. Isurava. Eora. Efogi. Brigade Hill. Ioribaiwa. Imita Ridge. These were places I read about in the months leading up to the trek. Villages, mountain ranges, battle sites – still hav-ing the claim as some of the most remote areas in the world –…
The Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost
The ELCE met together for the annual synodical convention and budget conference (to give the complete description) for the past two days. There is a special report avail-able so please make sure you get a copy and you can read about what happened. Ascension’s…
The Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Last week I went to see one of the clerks in the front office. On his door was a sign saying ‘walkabout.’ That made me smile because I immediately thought of Pastor George and Charlotte. (Just in case you don’t know the term ‘walkabout’…
The Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Pastor George wrote several weeks ago about editing the British Lutheran and publishing it with errors. Well as much as I’ve checked this bulletin, every Sunday I sit down, look it over again only to find something I forgot to change, something misspelled, or…
Thanksgiving Sunday
Every year we have a Harvest Festival in our schools and churches. Do you know why? This is the time of year when all the crops have been harvested. Harvest Festival is a cel-ebration of the food grown on the land. Thanksgiving ceremonies and…