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Divine Service at Concordia and a Discovery
Sunday, October 14th, 2007

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 [...]

LLL Breakfast and 1 Timothy
Saturday, October 13th, 2007

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 [...]

A Baptism and a Service Project
Saturday, October 6th, 2007

I called Concordia Lutheran Church in Williston to see if there were any evening services. There are not, but there was an adult baptism and a project on Saturday. The company had delayed my next class until Monday, so I was able to attend.
The service was a combination of the Rite of Baptism, the [...]

Peace With Christ, Fort Collins, CO
Sunday, September 16th, 2007

First of all, I would like to thank Pastor Lehmann for inviting me to sing during both services at Peace With Christ Lutheran Church in Fort Collins.
Secondly, Pastor Lehmann preached a must-read sermon on Luke 15:1-10, found on his LiveJournal blog. My favorite part:
At this point you might be thinking, so what about the one? [...]

Rehearsal
Thursday, September 13th, 2007

Sunday will be interesting. I will be in Fort Collins once more for both services. The order of service will be LSB’s Service of Prayer and Preaching.
You may recall that I soloed the OT Canticle from SP&P in March. Sunday I will be doing OT and NT Canticles for both services, with anyone in [...]