All Saint’s Sunday “For all the saints who from their labors rest,  All who by faith before the world confessed, Your name, O Jesus, be forever blest.  Alleluia!  Alleluia!”   “For All the Saints”, Lutheran Book of Worship Do you know a saint . . . or two or three, orRead More →

Martin Luther was a dedicated priest in the Roman Catholic Church.  He struggled greatly with the conflict between what he understood of Jesus’ teachings of the Christian life and the great gift of salvation to all people, and the practices of the Church that seemed designed to keep Christians inRead More →

Garage Sale The St Andrew Youth’s semi-annual garage sale is Saturday, 10/19.  By the time most folks read this devotion, the sale will be completed.  While setting up for the sale, I starting thinking about how one person’s sales item (junk?) could be another person’s treasure.  I know several ofRead More →