The blog title "Some Assembly Required" is a play on words. The ancient Christian church often referred to their worship as an assembly. Given that religious sense, saying assembly is 'required' may raise some hackles. All that church-down-your-throat stuff. If you recoil at that kind of approach, fair enough, but that is not the intended meaning. There are messages, experiences, and sense of community, and sacraments and music and prayers and handshakes and hugs and coffee and bars that you just can't have without being a part of the assembly on some kind of regular basis. God has something to give you in a wide array of venues, but the only way to be a part of the Body is to assemble as a body. Come on in.
Glenn is Senior Pastor at St. Anthony Park Lutheran Church in St. Paul, Minnesota. He is quietly amazed at the richness of the gifts God has assembled in that particular congregation, and counts it a privilege to serve there. He likes the book of Jonah because it is chock full of mercy for people who really don't deserve it, which is quite a relief. Also because it is funny. Jonah is a literary gem in its own rite, as if its status as scripture were not enough. The picture above is a fresco in the monastery on the Greek island of Patmos, the place mentioned in the book of Revelation. In this fresco Jonah is being vomited onto land and he is already blogging about it.
Pastor Glenn has been with St. Anthony Park Lutheran since 2001.
Glenn is Senior Pastor at St. Anthony Park Lutheran Church in St. Paul, Minnesota. He is quietly amazed at the richness of the gifts God has assembled in that particular congregation, and counts it a privilege to serve there. He likes the book of Jonah because it is chock full of mercy for people who really don't deserve it, which is quite a relief. Also because it is funny. Jonah is a literary gem in its own rite, as if its status as scripture were not enough. The picture above is a fresco in the monastery on the Greek island of Patmos, the place mentioned in the book of Revelation. In this fresco Jonah is being vomited onto land and he is already blogging about it.
Pastor Glenn has been with St. Anthony Park Lutheran since 2001.