by Gaylan Mathiesen | Faith & Fellowship magazine, Lutheran Brethren Seminary
I sometimes wonder if many of God’s people feel disconnected from the Great Commission. After all, what does our work as a waitress or a welder, a business owner or a barista, a paralegal or a parent have to do with God’s redemptive mission? Have you heard the saying...
by Gaylan Mathiesen | Faith & Fellowship magazine
Today feels somewhat like a plague out of the Dark Ages. At this moment, we have no vaccine or cure to rely upon and there is much we cannot control; we’re not used to that. What we do have are examples of our Lord Jesus and His Church to guide us in how to respond in...
by Gaylan Mathiesen | identity Blog
Each Tuesday I serve as an adult literacy volunteer, helping a man I’ll call Ivan learn to read English. Ivan came to the United States during the Yugoslav Wars in the 1990s. Though his family was Orthodox Christian, they lived very peaceably in the dominantly Muslim...
by Gaylan Mathiesen | Faith & Fellowship magazine, Lutheran Brethren Seminary
“I, Patrick, a sinner… had for father the deacon Calpurnius… I was at that time about 16 years of age. I did not, indeed, know the true God; and I was taken into captivity in Ireland with many thousands of people… And there the Lord opened my mind to an awareness of...
by Gaylan Mathiesen | Faith & Fellowship magazine, Lutheran Brethren Seminary
“In the sprawling slum of Haiti’s Cité Soleil, Placide Simone, 29, offered one of her five offspring to a stranger. ‘Take one,’ she said, cradling a listless baby and motioning toward four rail-thin toddlers, none of whom had eaten that day. ‘You pick. Just feed...
