Pastor Cwirla has posted the sermon he preached while I visited on February 10. This was a cool sermon that related the first Adam to the second, Jesus.
Cool quote:
When Jesus needs bread in the wilderness He multiplies it; He does not “transubstantiate” stones. That would be most un-Creatorlike, to destroy one thing to [...]
Had I known I was going to be in the Bakersfield area for two Sundays, I would have saved my trip to Hacienda Heights for this week, thus only going once. This time, I did find Pastor William Cwirla, a pastor involved with Higher Things and an Issues, Etc., regular.
Cwirla officiated Divine Service [...]
My weekend was open before we start doing some 12-hour shifts Monday at the Bakersfield facility, so I got some advice as to what to visit. Several people nominated Holy Trinity in Hacienda Heights, CA. Pastor Cwirla, who is practically an Issues, Etc., regular, was out of town, but a Church History professor from Concordia [...]
We finally joined the congregation we have been attending since July, 2006. Even so, it was almost by accident. My old pastor had sent me an email asking if we should transfer our membership. I said, yeah, we probably should, just to reflect the way things had been, ba-da bing, ba-da boom, our name shows [...]
This morning was funny and cool for several reasons:
We were a little bit late. We came in during the announcements. Our normal pew in the back was occupied, so we tried to slide up the side to the third row from the front. Pastor Gau was describing the first Lutheran Service Book Matins service to [...]
After dedicating the congregation’s LSB hymnals and corporate confessional and absolution, Our Savior used Luther’s 1523 Formula Missae et Communionis (Form of Mass and Communion) for Divine Service this Reformation Day morning. I was asked to be the Cantor for the service, the first time I had soloed for Our Saviour.
The use of Formula Missae [...]
Concordia held Divine Service 3 out of the LSB, with Holy Communion. Normally I sing melody during the liturgy because I have kids I want to learn the melody, but this time I was picking out tenor and bass lines. Good stuff.
During the collection of the offering the organist played something I had not [...]
Before going in to teach this morning I was able to have breakfast with the Lutheran Laymen’s League men at Concordia. Conversations covered politics, deck building, what happens when you load the wrong shell into a gun, and the local Indians’ pow-wow throughout this week.
One of the men said that pow-wows were held so [...]
