“For God alone, O my soul, wait in silence, for my hope is from him. He only is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be shaken."-- Psalm 62:5,6. In his article, The Why and How of Silence in Worship, Rev. Paul Borgman shares that we live in a loud and chaotic world. “Life in the world today proves that we need silence,” he says. He shares that there is a human need for this silence. This is something I feel I have been learning myself over the years. I remember

“We commit this body to its resting place, ashes to ashes, dust to dust in the sure and certain hope of the resurrection to life for all God’s people.” At the time of a funeral, we reflect on our human weakness before God and our own eventual death. These historic well-known words have been spoken for centuries at Christian committals the world over. For many centuries, a part of the traditional liturgy for Ash Wednesday has been the Imposition of Ashes. In Biblical times ash

Oh sing to the LORD a new song; sing to the LORD, all the earth! Sing to the LORD, bless his name; tell of his salvation from day to day…Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name; bring an offering, and come into his courts! Worship the LORD in the splendor of holiness; tremble before him, all the earth! Psalm 96: 1,2,8,9 I have shared in the past that historic Evangelical or Lutheran worship is Divine Service. The term “Divine Service” goes back to the German language at th