Pastor Zip's Blog

For the first time in many years, I was not able to read the President's Thanksgiving Day Proclamation at a Thanksgiving Day (or Eve) Eu...

It's been an, uh, interesting Birth Week thanks to this coronavirus. At Tuesday evening's Council meeting while eating ice cream an...

A Prayer for Steadfastness in Affliction from the Common Service Book of the Lutheran Church , 1917 -- Almighty and most Merciful God, Who...

A Prayer in Time of National Distress from the Common Service Book of the Lutheran Church , 1917 -- O Lord God, Heavenly Father: We humbly...

A Prayer in Time of Great Sickness from the Common Service Book of the Lutheran Church , 1917 -- Almighty and most Merciful God, our Heave...

It was 27 years ago today I received "the power and authority to administer the meal, publicly before the altar from the other pastors ...

Written 243 years ago, the Declaration of Independence is more than stirring words. As the Bill of Rights Institute notes, The declaratio...