Sermons on Pentecost (Page 5)

For those of you who didn’t have to go through the four years of the ELCA Lutheran candidacy process to become an Ordained Pastor, you likely don’t know that every year, besides our internship year, we had to write an essay and be interviewed, by committees and different faculty members, to assess…

I find it interesting that the Holy Spirit is the Person of the Trinity that has typically been ascribed socially accepted feminine qualities like gentleness to go along with her feminine pronouns. The Spirit is often depicted in imagery as being like a dove or as a single candle flame instead of a roaring fire; what calm and lovely images! Yet, when the Spirit is…

While I don’t know any specific figures, it’s not hard to assume that leadership resources are a multi-million-dollar, if not a multi-billion-dollar, industry in the United States each year. We spend considerable amounts of money and countless hours developing leadership skills and looking at what other leaders can teach us. From CEOs to self-help guides, we look to…