Board of Elders

Precisely 500 years ago this Lententide, Martin Luther was writing his “Meditation on Christ’s Passion” (It was ready for distribution early April, 1519). This was only two years after the 95 Theses were nailed to the Castle Church door, so Luther’s Lenten meditation is…

Dear St. Paul Family, What did you get for Christmas? What are your New Year’s resolutions? Most of us have either asked or been asked these questions over the last few weeks. Christmas and the new year bring times with friends and family, the promise of a checked off Christmas list, and the…

Dear St. Paul Family, LIGHT FOLLOWS DARKNESS I found those words on a sundial in downtown Gonzales on one of my Saturday road trips only a few months after I moved to Austin. Perhaps they’ve stuck with me because at the time I had just begun to see the light again after a very dark period in my life. They are of course appropriate for a sundial because each day at dawn,…

Dear St. Paul Family, By the time you read this, we will have celebrated the Feast of the Ascension. The “Ascension” section of Lutheran Service Book only contains a mere five hymns. The oldest of those, “A Hymn of Glory Let Us Sing” (#493), was written 1,300 years ago by The Venerable Bede, one of the most important early English saints. Interestingly enough, he died in…

Dear St. Paul Family, A few days after Easter, I found myself looking at the lectionary readings for the coming days. I was struck by the reading for the Third Sunday in Easter – Exodus 32:15-35. This passage describes Moses’ descent from Mount Sinai and his subsequent discovery of the wild scene in the Israelite camp, where his people had, in his absence, begun to…

Dear St. Paul Family, † God’s Blessings for a wonderful 2017 † Every month Pastor Nuckols calls his elders to order in a meeting where we discuss the congregation’s activities. In addition to the goings-on at St. Paul we also engage in devotionals, studying of the Book of Concord (available on the…