Born in Carthage under the Roman Empire, the early church father Tertullian wrote a famous description of how […]
Category Archive: Paul Koch
So, yesterday was my 50th Birthday. Fifty years is a significant milestone. For half a century, I have […]
A little over a month ago, I traveled up north to visit Peace Lutheran Church in Bremerton, Washington. […]
The other day, as I walked through the church, I paused for a moment, standing in the center […]
Here we are, all these years after that first Easter morning. Here we are in the triumph of […]
805-659-2127 was the phone number of my childhood home here in Ventura. All these years later, I still […]
Today is a day of great activity, a day of celebration, anticipation, and wonder. Yet, it is also […]
The parable of the Wicked Tenants is a fitting text for the season of Lent. It is a […]
Overall, people love the parables our Lord tells. Most are simple stories about some strange yet relatable occurrence […]
Paul’s words from 1 Corinthians 10 come to us as a warning, a cautionary tale about the dangerous […]
The Gospel lesson for today is a strange little text. In fact, when I first read it the […]
An old professor of mine, and by that I mean he was my professor a long time ago […]
It is hard to argue with Joel’s excellent article concerning pastors being visionaries in their congregations, but I […]
I like to think most of us have at least one person in our lives, perhaps a parent […]
At the end of the book of Deuteronomy, we find God’s people gathered on the plains of Moab. […]
One thing which seems to have been lost in our age is the idea of the sacred. We […]
At this point in my career, I have forgotten more weddings than I can remember. I am not […]
Throughout the centuries, different metaphors have been used to describe the Church. Some come directly from Scripture, some […]
As if caught up in a fever dream, she pushed her way through the crowd of mourners and […]
“So, you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.” This is […]