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Here, at the end of summer, we continue on our march through the long season after Pentecost. We are well past the more narratively- driven liturgical seasons, that is, the ones that follow the arc of the Gospel story: the expectation of the Savior, the birth of Christ, his revealing to the world, his suffering and death, his resurrection and ascension, and the gift of the Holy Spirit. Those are the seasons from Advent through to Pentecost. After Pentecost (May 24th) and Hol

After a couple thousand miles, the Redeemer Mountain TOP Team rolled back into town after another great week "on the mountain." What a journey! Our travels included a stop at "Buc-ee's" in Virginia, a Sunday morning worship with Tennessee Lutherans, various worksites across a large swarth of the Cumberland Plateau, numerable side trips for ice cream, and a week's-worth of worship, community sharing and volleyball at camp. We reconnected with "old friends" from last year's

“Why am I doing this?“ One of those things we say, from time to time, with great exasperation. In the days leading up to a big trip, mixed in with the anticipation and excitement, this question invariably rises in me. “Why?” This coming Saturday, very early, our group leaves for Mountain TOP. For those who don’t know, the “TOP“ stands for Tennessee Outreach Project. Redeemer has sent many teams of youth and adults to Mountain TOP over the years, going back to the mid

I began my ministry at Redeemer 25 years ago this week. This seems a notable milestone, accentuated by the “fun fact” that my pastorate at Redeemer spans one tenth of our nation's history. In a drawer in the church office, there sits the old parish register, an enormous bound folio in which all official pastoral acts are recorded. One of these days, I’ll tally the number of weddings, funerals, and baptisms I’ve done these last 25 years. (Suffice it to say, a bunch.) Chi