ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH  Friday, August 6, 2021 Click to open this email in your browser Dear Holy Ones of the Lord, Sunday’s Gospel reading is a stark call to repentance: Jesus shows up: do we care? Jesus wept over Jerusalem because that was God’s own special people, chosen through the line of Abraham for generations. […]

ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH  Friday, July 30, 2021 Click to open this email in your browser Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,   This week Jesus tells a story of a guy who got caught ripping off his master and his way out of the problem was to rip him off even more! What, what? The master […]

ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH  Friday, July 23, 2021 Click to open this email in your browser Dear Saints in Christ, If you have a batch of bad apples, there’s something wrong with the tree. If you have a batch of healthy, delicious apples, then you can conclude that the apple tree is healthy and productive. This […]

ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH  Friday, July 16, 2021 Click to open this email in your browser Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, By the wonders of the internet, you’ll be reading this while we’re in Reno visiting our daughter. Some thoughts as you prepare for worship this week. It’s the Seventh Sunday after Trinity and it’s the […]

ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH  Friday, July 9, 2021 Click to open this email in your browser Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Can you recite the Ten Commandments? You should be able to! The Ten Commandments are a summary of what it means to love God and love our neighbor. The Commandments are more than rules. […]

ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH  Friday, July 2, 2021 Click to open this email in your browser Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, This Sunday, the Fifth Sunday after Trinity, we hear the story of Jesus calling His disciples to be “fishers of men.” After that, they left everything and followed Jesus. That’s what a disciple is: […]

ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH  Friday, June 18, 2021 Click to open this email in your browser Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Can you imagine? Jesus eating with tax collectors and sinners! I’m not sure why but I think people have the impression that the church is for “good” people, respectable people. People who can’t seem […]

Dear Sons and Daughters of the King,   A great feast was prepared! But no one wanted to go. Jesus’ parable of the wedding banquet puts it right to us: What sorts of excuses and other things keep us from wanting the Lord’s feast? For a time, we all had foregone that feast. Covid caused […]

ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH Friday, May 28, 2021 Click to open this email in your browser Dear Saints in Christ, This week is the Festival of the Holy Trinity. The word “trinity” is not in the Bible! But the word describes what the Bible teaches: God reveals Himself to us in Three Distinct Persons, each of […]