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

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