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Newsletter — May 29, 2022 May 29th, 2022

The shooting at Uvalde elementary school is a tragedy. We grieve with those who grieve. We mourn with those who mourn. For many of us, it is almost impossible to contemplate what fathers, mothers, brothers, and sisters of those who lost their lives are facing. As we try to understand this …

Newsletter — May 22, 2022 May 22nd, 2022

Here’s an exercise in contrasts: Elizabeth Amy Eaton, presiding bishop of the ELCA (the liberal Lutherans) Tweeted this past week, “While the leaked court draft does not represent the Supreme Court’s ruling in its final form; nevertheless, it contradicts this church’s teaching. This …

Newsletter — May 15, 2022 May 15th, 2022

Fifteen years ago, in the spring of 2007, Pastor Rich Lusk presided over a Lord’s Day service, during which six charter families took vows and were received into membership of the newly formed St. Mark Reformed Church. In God’s providence, for various reasons having to do with jobs …

Newsletter — May 8, 2022 May 8th, 2022

This past week, as you must surely now be aware, an opinion draft leaked from the Supreme Court of these United States. The topic: The overturning of Roe v. Wade. Leaving aside questions about the integrity of the court and the trust of the clerks and aids who serve there (or even the Justices …

Newsletter — May 1, 2022 May 1st, 2022

For May, our Hymn of the Month is All Praise to Thee, My God, This Night written by Thomas Ken (set to music by Thomas Tallis). Ken lived from 1637 to 1711 and throughout that time he was a pastor, chaplain at Winchester College, chaplain to Princess (later to be queen) Mary, and bishop …

Newsletter — April 24, 2022 April 24th, 2022

You may or may not have heard of the Twitter account “LibsOfTikTok” depending upon how “extremely online” you are or aren’t. This account, run by a previously anonymous person, would repost crazy and/or weird things liberals posted, often from the short video service TikTok (hence the …

Newsletter — April 17, 2022 April 17th, 2022

Christ is Risen! While we celebrate Christ’s death and resurrection every Lord’s Day, on this another glorious Easter Sunday we celebrate in a particular way Christ’s resurrection from the dead. Easter is a modern English word which derives from what English speakers used to call …

Newsletter — April 10, 2022 April 10th, 2022

There’s nothing quite like the joy of a wedding as God knits together two souls to form one unit. In our case, we have too the privilege of seeing the fruit of faithfulness in two of our member families as their children join together to glorify God by their union. Psalm 127:3 …

Newsletter — April 3, 2022 April 3rd, 2022

What are the qualifications one needs to serve as a Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States? The constitution does not specify any educational standard, or really, much else. The method of selection, as I’m sure you probably know by this point, is that the sitting president will …

Newsletter — March 27, 2022 March 27th, 2022

News this past week of Justice Clarence Thomas’ hospitalization can be a bit worrisome for those of us who value, well, justice. While the court should not be a place that has much occasion for various political shenanigans to surface, nevertheless the fact is that the liberal and …

Newsletter — March 20, 2022 March 20th, 2022

In Matthew 22 Jesus says, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and great commandment.” Last week, Pastor Thacker preached to us from Mathew 25 and the takeaway is clear: be about the business of the …

Newsletter — March 13, 2022 March 13th, 2022

Pastor Thacker mentioned in his sermon last week that political corruption is nothing new, it’s been going on since, well, the dawn of time really. Still, it can sometimes be surprising the political shenanigans politicians get up to. You remember how inflation was on the rise …