Jul 14, 2021 | Stories, Stories of God's People
The summer between my junior and senior high school years, I caddied at a country club in an east side suburb of Cleveland, Ohio. The course was closed Mondays. And on one of those Mondays, two of my friends and I broke into the golf shop and stole some clubs. We were...
Apr 8, 2021 | Pastor's Stories, Stories
Sometime in 2017, a plumber/member of our Holy Trinity Lutheran Church and School family in Riverton, UT, came to my office and asked what it was like to be called into the pastoral ministry. We visited for some time and explored his background having been born and...
Mar 5, 2021 | Donor Stories, Stories
Recently Director of Alumni and Church Relations Tim Puls visited the members of Grace Lutheran Church in Ventura, CA, to formally announce the establishment of the Yaspelkis Endowment, thanks to gifts from Andrew and Thea Nielsen. Andrew thanked the congregation by...
Mar 1, 2021 | Stories, Stories of God's People
It was at a climatic point in my life. I had gone through a divorce and had many questions, such as, “Where do I go from here?” A Lutheran pastor named Richard Mohr, fresh from the Seminary, was walking through my brother’s neighborhood. My brother and I had never...
Jan 26, 2021 | Stories, Stories of God's People
Reverend Robert Beinke has been my Pastor at St. Peter Lutheran Church in Norwalk, CT for over twenty-five years and there is no one I admire and trust more. His love for the Lord and his congregation is evident to all through his words and actions. Pastor Beinke is a...
Sep 24, 2020 | Stories, Student Stories
When I was a first year seminarian in the fall of 1978, Professor Scaer was preaching in chapel on the text of Matthew 13:44 and following. He preached so directly on how God’s love and the justification of the sinner are so connected that even a sinner such as...
