Everyday Lutherans

Today is Holy Trinity Sunday.  A Sunday in the year that we celebrate and recognize the Holy Trinity.  However, this past week has made it hard to focus on the complexity of God when there is so much here on Earth around us that is demanding our attention.  Yet, I am also reminded that it is here in the complexity of God that it shines a light of hope into the complexity of our own life and yes…  even what is happening among us today.   Throughout this week, I wrestled for the right words to say to the pain, anger, frustration, voices, longing for recognition, and yet nothing came.  So to say nothing is a choice.  Yet it is in the choice to remain silent that we allow others to create and form an opinion for us.   I recognize that racism is one factor of the protests happening right now.  I recognize that among us are people who we separate from us and call a variety of races, that each and every one of us has our own experiences which g...

The holy Trinity has been a topic that people have tried to understand ever since Christ was around.  People in the past have wrestled with how is it that God can be three, but one for years.  Around the year 300 AD, many of the debates of the church were settled by the means of Creeds.  Statements of faith that the Christian church could agree upon.  The Apostle's Creed, The Nicene Creed and the Athannasian Creed, were all formed to make it clear to all people exactly how it is that God is three in one and to clarify each of the roles that God took.  If you turn in your LBW to page _____ you will find two of the creeds.  You will find the Apostle's Creed which is said practically every Sunday.  The Nicene Creed, we typically say on special occasions within the church.  These two creeds sound very similar, and yet there are some slight changes.  Today, I am going to focus on the similarities so that we can understand God's relation to the wor...