God be praised! Mother and child are both healthy.
28.10.2025 01:03 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@thedonstein.bsky.social
Your friend. Jesus loves you. Pastor at St. Andrew Ev. Lutheran Church in Rockton, IL. Husband to Emily. Green Bay Packers owner. “Cheese elitist.”
God be praised! Mother and child are both healthy.
28.10.2025 01:03 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Please pray for safe delivery for an expectant mother and child.
27.10.2025 18:04 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0And just like that, everything is right in my world.
06.09.2025 14:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Another funeral this morning.
Graves
aren’t supposed
to be so many.
Committal of a baby this afternoon.
Graves
aren’t supposed
to be so small.
Death of a parishioner this evening.
Graves
aren’t supposed
to be.
Come quickly, Lord Jesus.
I’ve seen addicts relapse.
I’ve held the dying hands of the lonely.
I’ve comforted mothers and fathers who have lost children.
I have baptized dying babies.
I don’t know if there is a grief that hits a pastor harder than seeing spiritual apathy in lukewarm Christians.
The dog found a bunny nest.
And the doe.
Now I have three crying little girls.
And I’m hand-feeding cat milk to the lone survivor through a pipette.
New from me: details on the sold Glory Club, which has set up at least 26 lodges across 20 states, and whose members include antisemitic podcasters, a national guardsman, and a defense contractor with secret clearance www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
05.07.2025 17:07 — 👍 459 🔁 305 💬 38 📌 37When I left for vacation, the counter read “Inbox Zero.”
06.07.2025 22:42 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It’s been 15 years since time stood still. It hasn’t stopped moving since.
01.07.2025 20:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0North Carolina needs Jesus.
30.06.2025 14:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We went mini golfing on a pirate ship. Did the Titanic thing because I’m romantic like that for her.
29.06.2025 18:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Given the news from across the pond, today is a good day to remember that excommunication is a punishment, yes, in that it is a consequence for wicked actions. Yet it is done in love and hope that the erring would, God-willing, turn from their wickedness.
29.06.2025 17:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Blessed Feast of Sts. Peter & Paul!
Honor God’s precious saints by:
1. Thanking God for them.
2. Being strengthened in faith by their example.
3. Patterning our lives according to theirs.
Grant peace, we pray, in mercy, Lord:
Peace in our time, O send us!
For there is none on earth but You,
None other to defend us.
You only, Lord, can fight for us.
Amen.
Saving some lives today. You should consider doing the same.
21.06.2025 15:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Today is a good day to see the work of God in your neighbor, and to sing hymn 964 in the Lutheran Service Book.
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I am blessed far beyond my deserving. Still doing theatre with my beloved, all these many years later. This time, with our kids.
Ragtime is going to be special.
Important conversation between my kiddo and my wife.
5yo: How will you find me my husband?
Wife: Well, I pray for your husband, but you will find him. You will get to pick him.
5yo: But I don’t have a car! So pray for that, too.
The local community college has some truly ancient tables.
16.06.2025 00:30 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Had a real-life Jurassic Park moment in the cul-de-sac over. This bird has been terrorizing the neighbor’s kids for the last few weeks. I offered use of our dog for a day. “Maybe.”
13.06.2025 21:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0One last PALS with the brothers at Holy Cross in Cary, IL. Honored to preach the Word.
10.06.2025 15:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0One last PALS with the brothers at Holy Cross in Cary, IL. Honored to preach the Word.
10.06.2025 13:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We tried the Dragon Fart at God’s Chicken. It was pretty good.
07.06.2025 20:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Come, Holy Ghost,
Fill the hearts of Your faithful people, and kindle in them the fire of Your love. Through the diversity of tongues You have gathered together the nations in the unity of the faith. Alleluia, Alleluia!
Amen.
This church is not in the Texas district of the LCMS. Ask me how I know.
06.06.2025 01:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Counterpoint: It is a gift! A gift to the foes of Mordor.
30.05.2025 16:47 — 👍 147 🔁 26 💬 5 📌 0I do not permit my wife to empty the dehumidifier bucket. That’s my job.
(I’m the moisture farmer in this house.)
Secular courts should not redefine how a Synod has defined itself for a century and a half.
28.05.2025 13:19 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0God bless America.
26.05.2025 17:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Can you imagine how empty the world would be if you turned on the radio on a Sunday afternoon, but you didn't hear anything about a place where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking and all the children are above-average?
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