Pastor Robert Foote

 I Am “Unworthy!” This is true… One of the important qualifications in St. Paul’s directives to the Corinthian congregation was that they should not come to the table if they are “unworthy.” The full text is here: “’And when He had given thanks, He broke it, and said, ‘This is My body, which is for […]

  Mysteries… Or not… Body, Soul, Water, Bread, Wine – Cross! Why do you think God chose to create us as physical beings, along with spiritual? He could have made us spirits only, perhaps as a way to eliminate sin.  But we know that in the case of angels who lack a body, their “spiritual”

Impute the Tail on the Donkey, Blind-folded? It’s been years since I played pin the tail on the donkey, and not just because of the frustration of never quite hitting the appropriate spot. People just aren’t playing the game as much as they used to.  I guess it’s old-fashioned.  I suspect Lutherans were involved in

The Obvious Application of an Overlooked Baptismal Passage “Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to himself in splendor without spot or wrinkle or

“As Often…Visits to the Doctor or the Gym” We know that the Corinthian congregation had many problems.   In fact, every congregation could say the same thing – hopefully not to the degree of the Corinth Christians.  But it is certain that every congregation has its problems and dysfunctions.  What’s more, each of us individually knows

Double Passover Most Christians and Jewish people recall the origin of one Old Testament Jewish festival.  This festival comes from captivity in Egypt and a final plague, that is, the death of the firstborn male child in every house.   Households of faithful Jews were spared as the Lord “passed over” those homes.  Hence, “The Passover….”

Holy Communion Even the Lone Ranger Had Tonto  I am old enough to have grown up watching reruns of the television show The Lone Ranger, but not old enough to have ever heard the original radio broadcast from Detroit in the 1930s and 1940s. Reading about the origin of the radio series, the authors plotted

The Mystery of Wood and Water  “Deliver and Destroy” Lent begins with Ash Wednesday.  We remember that we are but dust and ashes, and to dust we shall return. We recall that Adam was created from dust, and God “breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and he became a living soul.” (Gn. 2:7)

The Mystery of the Exodus  “Making a Distinction” When you turn the page from Genesis to Exodus, you have just jumped 400 years into the future… from where Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and the 12 sons of Jacob left off – living in Egypt but living separate from the Egyptians.  Apparently, they were on a literal

The Mystery of Our Exodus  We, Too, Came Out of Captivity! If you speak with your more conservative Jewish friends as they are celebrating the Passover, they might give you this important detail: during the Passover Seder we are instructed to collectively say: “Because of this, God acted for me when I came out of