Hello friends, Sharon and I have been a bit out of pocket this past week taking some time off after Easter. I am starting a new writing project that I am not going to say too much about yet but I hope I can share it with you all soon. Please let me know if you or any of your loved ones need prayer. You can email me at timothytahtinen@me.com
Click the following link for worship at King of Glory in Greenfield https://youtu.be/IPgbzbuWPS8 Click the following link for worship at St. Marks in Cudahyhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8juPvyZPG7E0WsvvyjRl5w Happy Easter to all, Pastor Tim
It is so hard to believe that it is Good Friday. I am a pastor and I feel rested and energized. Good Friday has traditionally been a day for us to look deeply into the suffering and death of Jesus and see our part in putting Jesus on the cross. The feeling of deep emotional guilt which used to comfort me, in some strange way, as I beat my chest
Maundy Thursday 2020 THAT and THIS On THAT night nearly 2000 years ago Jesus met with his disciples and other followers in the upper room to celebrate the passover feast. They were after all Jews, and part of being a jew at the time of Jesus was to remember THAT night. A night like no other in which the Lord God delivered their ancestors from slavery in Egypt. It was
Holy Monday 2020 Gospel of Mark 11:12-14 NRSV 12 On the following day, when they came from Bethany, he was hungry. 13 Seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to see whether perhaps he would find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs. 14 He said to it, “May no one ever eat fruit from
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Who Sends Us Out To Be the Good News SONGS ABOUT FEET When I was a child, we sang a song at church about feet. I thought it was odd at the time but everyone else was doing it, so, ok. Don’t get me wrong, I loved songs about body parts. “Do your ears hang low” was one of my favorites and even a song about your feet being too
Who Sends Us Out to Be the Good News BELIEVE One of my great laments of modern Christianity is that it has become a noun. Much of what I read abut faith, is about the what rather than the how. To be a follower of Jesus has gone from following Jesus to being a follower of Jesus. To believe has become more about agreeing with the truth of a doctrinal
Who Gathers All the Children of Earth Into One Family, Who Uses Our Abilities and Gifts, And Sends Us Out to Be the Good News. TRANSFORMATION On March 4th 2018, Spirit of Peace Lutheran Church in Milwaukee, where I was the pastor, held the dedication of the, “Urban Gathering Center.” It is a 32 bed gathering space for groups who want to come into the city to explore, serve and
Who Comes to Us In the Bread and Wine, Who Gathers All the Children of Earth Into One Family, Who Uses Our Abilities and Gifts MY FIRST CALL One day at Synod Convention, just after my graduation from Seminary, I had a chance encounter with a friend affectionately know as Doctor Abe. As we talked, I asked him what was happening down at his church, Divine Word-Pentecost. With a smile