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“Eternity,” You Thunder Word

December 17, 2019 by Frank C. Senn

Johann Sebastian Bach Gwen GotschMark Bangert Edited by Frank Senn On November 24, 2019 (what for us contemporary Lutherans was Christ the King Sunday, a twentieth century Roman Catholic festival we adopted in 1978, but for the old Lutherans the Last Sunday after Trinity with its eschatological theme of the last judgment) the Bach Cantata […]

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Farewell Sermon: Home Rejoicing

November 30, 2019 by Benjamin Dueholm

Pastor Benjamin Dueholm Preached at Lutheran Church of the Messiah, Wauconda, IL on September 17, 2019. Sisters and brothers, grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. I found some lost sheep this week as I cleaned out my office. Lots of them, actually, lost and hiding in […]

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Welcome to Let’s Talk 2020

the Brown Virgin (La Morenita)

Let’s Talk has offered “living theology in the Metropolitan Chicago Synod” since 1996. At the beginning and for many years it was a mailed print publication. A few years ago we went online. It costs less and gave us greater potential circulation (the whole world!). We have usually published thematic volumes. The last was the […]

Self-Care: Being Present to God and to our Bodily Selves

November 25, 2019 by Frank C. Senn

Frank C. Senn   We all need dedicated times to be present to God and to our bodily selves. In both we address our soul, that which makes us uniquely who we are. I could just say: you should have a time for personal prayer, maybe first thing in the morning using a good prayer […]

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Holy Living

November 25, 2019 by Richard O. Johnson

Richard O. Johnson It is my pleasure and my joy to be with you this evening for this event, and to contribute in some way, I hope, to “refreshing the hearts of the saints” here in the Metropolitan Chicago area. My thanks to Pastor Keith Forni for inviting me, and for being such a splendid […]

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Our Lady of Guadalupe and the Season of Advent

November 25, 2019 by Maxwell E. Johnson

the Brown Virgin (La Morenita)

Maxwell Johnson December 12, 2016 Professor Johnson invited Let’s Talk to use a version of his talk published in Church Life Journal. A journal of the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame. Tim O’Malley, the director of the Institute, immediately gave us permission to republish this article. For some Christian […]

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the Brown Virgin (La Morenita)

“Eternity,” You Thunder Word

By Frank C. Senn

Farewell Sermon: Home Rejoicing

By Benjamin Dueholm

Self-Care: Being Present to God and to our Bodily Selves

By Frank C. Senn

Holy Living

By Richard O. Johnson

Our Lady of Guadalupe and the Season of Advent

By Maxwell E. Johnson