The Cactus & The Cross Blog

God has blessed St John’s with fantastic partners in the Gospel: Emmanuel Sudanese Lutheran Fellowship and Vida Nueva Lutheran Church! We’ll be meeting for a combined worship & picnic on Sunday Nov 2 at 11am. We will sing and worship in English, Dinka, and Spanish! We will eat and play and laugh together. It is a preview of heaven: all the saints from every tribe, language, people and nation who have been set free by Jesus from Sin, Death, and the Devil (Rev 5:9)!           H

All are invited to Rally Sunday in our church courtyard Sunday, August 17 at 9:30 am!

Tuesday, August 12, at 1 pm in Room 9/13. You are invited to join our Book Club for an engaging discussion of “Once Upon a Wardrobe” by...

For if the eagerness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what one does not have. 2 Corinthians,...

The Palo Verde tree grows best in the desert heat, where others may think no life might thrive. God does a new thing!

When I was enrolled at the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Philadelphia (Now United Lutheran Seminary), one of the requirements was to...

Ash Wednesday is on February 14th this year—Valentine’s Day. While some may think it strange to celebrate romantic love on the same day...

This past October I was privileged to sit through a workshop lead by our very own Pastor Lowell Nelson, a member of St. John’s, who was...

Have you ever had your phone working but not quite right, dropping calls and apps suddenly closing? Sometimes the best thing is to reset...

At my seminary graduation I felt like an all-star. As I looked back at the growth I experienced thinking of my first seminary class being...