The Salt Shaker
flavoring the world with justice and love.
Jesus told his followers, “You are the salt of the earth”. Salt, in the right amounts and in the right situations, preserves, flavors, and enables life. When love is shared and justice prevails for all people, the world is preserved, flavored and enabled with the Divine Life of God. So pass the salt and let’s do a little shaking. Pastor Tim Koester
Dear Pastor, “Have you ever rode a horse?” – and other questions
About ten months ago, when I had only been at Saint Michael for a few weeks, the subject of "questions" came up during worship. Thomas, that "doubting" disciple, had some questions for his friends who claimed to have seen Jesus raised from the dead. Interestingly...
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Would Jesus Have Facebook?
My day begins fairly early, not quite as early as when I had dairy cows, but still pretty early. Shelli leaves for work around 6:30 and that means I have time in the morning to do some reading, exercise, and catch up on the news. Most of the time that means spending...
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Christmas “Time”
Now at the beginning of the new calendar year, it might be good to remind ourselves that the Christmas season is twelve days long, as the old song says: twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany, twelve days to ponder the mystery of the Word becoming flesh and...
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