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This week marked a significant anniversary in the history of Central Lutheran. One hundred years ago on July 18, 1926, the congregation broke ground on the new “Cathedral” Sanctuary.
Do you ever think about how much we take for granted? Take garbage, for instance. We throw garbage into a trash bag, put it in the container in our garage, and then put it out on the curb on pickup day. It’s gone!
Her name was Miss Twyla Dixon, and she runs a thrift shop/gift store at the foot of the Edmund Pettis Bridge. We almost didn’t stop at Twyla’s place, but we needed a place to get our bearings before deciding whether to walk the bridge that led from West Selmont across the Alabama River into Selma in a heat that took our breath away.
With the Reconciling in Christ celebration last Sunday and Twin Cities Pride this weekend, I felt called to share a bit of my journey. God placed incredible people in my life, people who helped me see that I am exactly as I was created to be: fearfully and wonderfully made.
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are known as the “forever chemicals.” They are human-made, water-resistant chemicals that do not break down.
This weekend, we are delighted to unveil a new set of paraments in beautiful shades of green, the liturgical color for the time after Pentecost.
Weekly reflections from the preaching pastor.
The Central Lutheran faith community was founded in 1919 with the vision to pass along “the faith of the parents in the language of the children.” Many immigrant Lutherans in 1919 sought to worship in the language of their home country.
This is the vision cast by Isaiah in our reading for this weekend, which proclaims the restoration and the transformation of suffering to joy and weeping to gladness. As we stood at Montgomery Square, the final stopping place of the March from Selma to Montgomery, where 25,000 souls gathered, I have to believe that those assembled that day believed in the promised hope of God.
In the Gospel lesson for this weekend, Jesus offers this remarkable invitation: “Come to me all who are weary and I will give you rest.” We have pondered that weariness is not the same as being tired. It is an experience that cannot be solved by an afternoon nap.
Within the contemplative tradition in various forms is the invitation to pause, breathe, and reflect. It is a simple way in the flow of your day to seek an awareness of God’s constant and abiding presence. Another way to ponder the invitation to pause, breathe, and reflect is in the challenge to “be where your feet are.”
This is Reconciling in Christ (RIC) Weekend at Central Lutheran. Central Lutheran has been blessed time and again by people who are a part of the LGBTQIA2S+ community.
In a little over two weeks, 21 of us will leave for Montgomery, Alabama to embark on a Civil Rights tour. Micah 6:8 will guide our conversations as we travel. We will ponder, wonder, and explore what it means to “do justice, love kindness, and walk humbly with God.”
