Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church

Today is the commemoration of the Confession of St. Peter the Apostle. In St. Matthew 16 Peter confessed boldly to Jesus “You are the...

I don’t remember where I first saw the term or where I heard it, but it resonated with me the first time I came across it: Decision...

The Following is Chapter V of a book entitled The Valley of the Shadow by Lutheran pastor Hanns Lilje. During the Second World War, Lilje...

“The celebration of Advent is possible only to those who are troubled in soul, who know themselves to be poor and imperfect, and who look...

I have been keenly interested in studying the lives of pastors in Germany from the Weimar period (1920s to 1932) and during the National...

I came across this photo yesterday. It is a photo of Pastor Bruno Doehring preaching in the crypt of the bombed out and demolished Berlin...

Justification by faith is the doctrine upon which the church stands or falls. Your salvation is not the result of your efforts or good...

Today on 11 November the church commemorates St. Martin of Tours a former soldier turned missionary bishop to western France in the 4th...

Today is the birthday of Martin Chemnitz (1522-1586). Known as the “Second Martin” Chemnitz helped to bring order to the Lutheran Church...

Back again to share another new-found insight into the Reformation from Steven Ozment’s book entitled, The Serpent and the Lamb: Cranach,...

Reformation Day 2021 has come and gone. Leading up to the commemoration I wanted to share a new insight into the Reformation I recently...

Preachers are subject to the same fits of ambition and glory as anyone else. Some struggle with envy over other parishes or ministries...

I have a love/hate relationship with technology. There probably is not a week that goes by that I do not resolve to get rid of my IPhone...

At the cross roads of the Via Imperii (Bergen to Rome) and the Via Regia (Paris to Novogrod) lies the city of Leipzig Germany. The city...

On this day in 1787 Henry Melchoir Muhlenberg died in the sure and certain hope of the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. He led a...

Why I wear black When I was in seminary I could not wait to receive a call to a church and be ordained. A few weeks before ordination I...

Social media has its negatives and its positives. Somedays more than the other. This is a good one: on social media, I follow Stiftung...

Today while getting lost on a rabbit trail on the internet I came across a pastor I had never heard of before: The Rev'd Juliusz Bursche...

Why a Pastor’s blog? One of the things I really love about my work as a pastor is that I am constantly learning new things. One can never...