A beautiful Autumn Sunday
Well Autumn has begun! Harvest Home Sunday and the Ephrata Fair are in the books for 2023. This past Sunday was Lutheran World Relief...
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Jeffrey Goodman
Aug 8, 20232 min read
Resurrection Sunday!
A Wonderful Day of Resurrection The proper preface for the Holy Communion for the Sundays after Pentecost goes this way, “It is indeed...
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Jeffrey Goodman
Nov 2, 20222 min read
What a weekend!
This past weekend of 29 and 30 October was certainly busy for Salem Church. On Saturday volunteers arrived at 8:00 AM to make 200...
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Jeffrey Goodman
Jun 27, 20225 min read
My Friend and Mentor Bill
On Saturday I received word that my friend and former pastor The Rev’d William W. Spiegelhalder died in the sure and certain hope of the...
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Jeffrey Goodman
May 24, 20224 min read
The Choice We Have Before US
Last evening, I had a chance to hear and meet The Rev. Juhana Pohjola, Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Mission Diocese of Finland. I...
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Jeffrey Goodman
May 4, 20221 min read
Lutheran Bishop flees Russia over Ukraine War
A number of years ago the German broadcaster DW (Deutsche Welle) did a story on the Lutherans in Moscow. A companion story was also done...
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Jeffrey Goodman
Apr 12, 20224 min read
The End of Time and the Good Bishop
Over the last few years I have increasingly become interested studying the lives of pastors who served the church in Germany during the...
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Jeffrey Goodman
Apr 5, 20221 min read
The Apostles Creed Tapestry
I was was super excited on Sunday when after the Divine Service a parishioner mentioned that they had been to the The Metropolitan Museum...
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Jeffrey Goodman
Mar 30, 20221 min read
The Verdict is in!
Not guilty! This is a follow up to the last post from January. Today was a major win for religious liberty and freedom of speech today in...
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Jeffrey Goodman
Jan 18, 20223 min read
Confessing the Faith
Today is the commemoration of the Confession of St. Peter the Apostle. In St. Matthew 16 Peter confessed boldly to Jesus “You are the...
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Jeffrey Goodman
Jan 5, 20223 min read
Decision Fatigue
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...
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Jeffrey Goodman
Dec 21, 20217 min read
Christmas Eve in a Gestapo Prison
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...
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Jeffrey Goodman
Dec 14, 20212 min read
Standing the Watch with Bonhoeffer
“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...
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Jeffrey Goodman
Dec 1, 20213 min read
A Stand Firm Story
I have been keenly interested in studying the lives of pastors in Germany from the Weimar period (1920s to 1932) and during the National...
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Jeffrey Goodman
Nov 17, 20213 min read
The Comforter of Berlin
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...
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Jeffrey Goodman
Nov 15, 20212 min read
A Time to be born and a Time to die...
Justification by faith is the doctrine upon which the church stands or falls. Your salvation is not the result of your efforts or good...
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Jeffrey Goodman
Nov 11, 20212 min read
Remember Your Baptism
Today on 11 November the church commemorates St. Martin of Tours a former soldier turned missionary bishop to western France in the 4th...
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Jeffrey Goodman
Nov 9, 20212 min read
Reading Old Books
Today is the birthday of Martin Chemnitz (1522-1586). Known as the “Second Martin” Chemnitz helped to bring order to the Lutheran Church...
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Jeffrey Goodman
Nov 3, 20212 min read
The Apathetic Bishop and the Hard Monk
Back again to share another new-found insight into the Reformation from Steven Ozment’s book entitled, The Serpent and the Lamb: Cranach,...
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Jeffrey Goodman
Nov 2, 20213 min read
The Unhappy Poet and the Reformation
Reformation Day 2021 has come and gone. Leading up to the commemoration I wanted to share a new insight into the Reformation I recently...
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