Category Archives: Discipleship

Guardrails on a Mountain are nice…

Have you ever driven along a mountain road that had no guardrail?  It can be really scary.  And you ask yourself, “why are there no guardrails here?”  What were this people thinking, someone is going to drive off the side of this mountain and kill themselves… Isn’t that just exactly how life is?  We asContinue reading “Guardrails on a Mountain are nice…”

avalanches – The Melheimian Sabbatiblog

avalanches – The Melheimian Sabbatiblog. Another wonderful post from Rich Melheim… My comments on his sight: Could it be like, someone planted, someone else watered God brought the growth… I applied a little pressure, and set something in motion and a mother/father picked up on the motion and added a little something over there, andContinue reading “avalanches – The Melheimian Sabbatiblog”

Soccer – The Melheimian Sabbatiblog

Soccer – The Melheimian Sabbatiblog. Where is your church at in Evangelism.  My comment to Rich Melheim on his blog is here below. I wonder where you think we are at, or where you are at with your church in Evangelism… This is great! I believe unfortunately most Lutheran Congregations are like the Chinese diagramContinue reading “Soccer – The Melheimian Sabbatiblog”

No room in the Inn

We are in the midst of doing VBS at the congregation I serve.  Yesterdays scripture passage was Luke 2:1-20, the birth of Jesus. Now this is a story most of us hear year after year, because those of us who go to churches that follow the Revised Common Lectionary use this set of verses every Christmas Eve.Continue reading “No room in the Inn”

Prenatal Confirmation A womb with a view – The Melheimian Sabbatiblog

Prenatal Confirmation A womb with a view – The Melheimian Sabbatiblog. Can you imagine if all of our confirmation was done this way?  Can you imagine if the seeds of faith were planted each and every night at home?  Can you imagine if our youth came to know the church as a loving welcome place,Continue reading “Prenatal Confirmation A womb with a view – The Melheimian Sabbatiblog”

The Greatest Loser the church – The Melheimian Sabbatiblog

The Greatest Loser the church – The Melheimian Sabbatiblog. Rich Melheim is a great thinker and model for the church.  He always seems to be on the pulse of what is happening, and trying to help us all think about ways to look at the glass and how full it is, or to break freeContinue reading “The Greatest Loser the church – The Melheimian Sabbatiblog”

Big City – To Develop Young Tastes, Look Past the Children’s Menu – NYTimes.com

Big City – To Develop Young Tastes, Look Past the Children’s Menu – NYTimes.com. What does this say about how we are as the church?  Do we want to stick with the things we have always known and dumb it down because we think visitors and some members may not actually get it… Are weContinue reading “Big City – To Develop Young Tastes, Look Past the Children’s Menu – NYTimes.com”

The home as the basis of faith!

Here is a quote from Rich Melheim’s blog I found very interesting: “For those of you heaven-bent on changing the dying mainline before it turns into a flatline… For those of you hoping to reform your church to look less like the last chapter of American Christianity and more like Deuteronomy 6 (when you lieContinue reading “The home as the basis of faith!”