American Ev. Lutheran Church
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April 21, 2026:  Tuesday Bible Study on Acts 15:36-41 Good morning! Christ has Risen! He has Risen Indeed! Yes, it is still Easter though it’s easy to let go of the fact that Church Year Calendar places the celebration of Easter as a six week-long event in our lives. I know that Christmas seems to be bigger in terms of its impact on our culture and society, but Christ Birth is celebrated in the Church for 12 days. Yes, I know, we are always celebrating both of these world-cha

April 14, 2026:  Tuesday Bible Study on Acts 15:13-21 Good morning! What a beautiful crisp morning for driving with the windows down, and enjoying the cool, sunny, and calm air today. Please be reminded that we have our free movie this coming Saturday at 1PM in the Sanctuary. Treats will be provided, or you may bring your own, or some to share. This month we will have a romantic comedy; title posted at church. Please continue to pray for our church and her family as considera

April 13, 2026:  Monday Bible Study on Acts 15:6-12 Dear friends in Christ, Good morning and God bless you all. This online study gets shared with folks in Tucson, Colorado, and Hawaii, and there may be a few of which I am unaware. Thank you to all of you for coming back after my post Easter break last week. Easter service at church was wonderful with all the special music, organ soloist, Gospel Group, and Bell Choir. If you were unable to be with us, please be certain to go

March 30, 2026:  Monday Bible Study on Acts 14:21-28 Blessings and Peace be with you this morning. Yesterday we had a wonderful time with The Rev. David Pavesic, Director for Evangelical Mission from the Grand Canyon Synod. On Saturday I met with Pastor Pavesic and Bishop Hutterer sharing with them both as much information as any of us know about how the Spirit will guide our choices in this time of change for our congregation. Let me say again that it is not the intention of

March 23, 2026:  Monday Bible Study on Acts 14:1-7 Good Monday morning to you. I needed to spend some time this morning going through my emails that came while I was on vacation. I want to share some thoughts with you on the email letter from the Church Council which came to you this past week. There seems to be some confusion about needing to reserve if you are coming. That is not the case. The meeting is open to everyone. There is no need to make any kind of a reservation.

March 10, 2026:  Tuesday Bible Study on Acts 13:42-52 Good morning after a rainy thundery evening. I am hoping that you are enjoying what appears to be the last truly cool day for quite a long time. Forecasts are for a severe heat wave to catch us here in the desert in about 10 days, with temperatures over 100! I am letting you know in advance that I will be on vacation next week except for Wednesday morning through the Lenten Noon Service. Our younger boys are off from Schoo

February 24, 2026:  Tuesday Bible Study on Acts 13:13 Good morning. I am hopeful that you find this somewhat overly warm weather a pleasant surprise considering the cold and rainy weather we had just a few weeks ago. In our prayers for today I ask that we all pray for the unknown people around us who need prayers for their health, economy, safety, and more. I did announce on Sunday that the Church Council action to order whistles for anyone who would like to be carrying one h

February 17, 2026:  Tuesday Bible Study on Acts 13:1-3 Good morning on this rainy blessing for our desert. This winter really reminds me of winters when we first arrived in Tucson, and the call to serve Gospel of Jesus Christ at American Lutheran. Winter mornings were usually quite a bit colder than this winter has been, but it was the winter rain that was always so wonderful. We had great generous showers on the southeast side of town today. I want to remind you this morning

February 16, 2026:  Monday Bible Study on Acts 12:20-25 May the LORD'S blessings surround you today, and always, and may the courage of your faith sustain you for all the ins and outs of life in this time in our world. Thank you for your continuing prayer support for members of our congregation. Please keep Pastor Ron and Becky in your prayers as they meet the need for some monthly medical treatments while figuring out if they will be able to get to Tucson at all this winter.

February 10, 2026:  Tuesday Bible Study on Acts 12:1-11 Good morning, dear friends in Christ Jesus. I hope that you will continue to offer your prayers for the requests which I asked for prayers for yesterday, and if you have not already started to pray for the kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie, please do include her and her family in your prayers every day. I wonder regularly about how people in our modern world think that war, interring large numbers of non-criminal immigrants, k

February 9, 2026:  Monday Bible Study on Acts 11:27-30 Good morning, and blessings for you and yours on this wonderful warm desert morning here in Tucson. It has been an exciting weekend with the UA men's basketball team continuing their undefeated record, and, of course, all the excitement of the Winter Olympics in Italy. Of course, we are in the midst of the world's largest gem show too, and coming soon will be the largest non-mechanized parade in the U.S.A. with rodeo at t

February 3, 2026:  Tuesday Bible Study on Acts 11:22-26 Good morning my dear Bible Study group. Today please remember to pray for Joyce and Larry who have suffered a serious breach of personal information, and have had their finances, and even their home in danger. This morning Joyce is trying to come up with $1500.00 to stop an auction on their new home. This has been a very difficult time for them. If I seemed to be a little off this past week including Sunday, I have been

February 2, 2026:  Monday Bible Study on Acts 11:19-21 We are all living in the warmth and light of our Savior Jesus Christ. May our hope and trust in Christ fill our lives and truly create in us a desire to offer invitations for others to join us surrounded by God's Grace and Love. That is called evangelism. We seem to often be afraid of it, but as we look at our passage from the Acts of the Apostles today, this is exactly the means by which the early church grew and expande

January 26, 2026:  Monday Bible Study on Acts 11:1-10 May the peace of the Lord be with you this morning, and throughout the entire day! Good morning my dear study friends. It is good to be back with you this Monday. I ask you for prayers today for the Olivas family, former members of American who moved to Phoenix to be close to their daughter's family and the grandchildren. We received word on Sunday, right after church, that Joyce Olivas had become a heavenly triumphant sai

January 20, 2026:  Tuesday Bible Study on Acts 10:44-48 Good morning, and may your day be filled with the LORD'S richest blessings of Grace and Comfort. This morning, I would ask you to pray with thanksgiving to God for Roy's and Christina's birthdays this week.  We are also quickly approaching the 76th birthday of our congregation.  Pray for Americans continuing ministry for the Gospel of Jesus Christ, remembering that it takes all of us in dedication to the work to which th

January 12, 2026:  Monday Bible Study on Acts 10:17-33 Blessings and Peace be with you on this beautiful sunny morning. What a gift the weather has been this winter in the desert! Along with you, I love the warmer trend of our desert winters, but I also know how important it is for us to remember that environmental change means that there is something wrong in the world that has caused that change. We have seen it in raging floods in the Carolinas, severe weather in the deep

January 6, 2026:  Tuesday Bible Study on Acts 10:9-16 Good morning, and happy Epiphany, the season of the church year when we celebrate God's revelation of Himself through His Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ. This is the day we lift up the entry of the Wise Men into the life of Mary, Joseph, and Jesus, providing them with the means to escape the coming life trials of Herod's action to destroy all the young children in, and around, Bethlehem.  It is only through the gifts of the Ma

January 5, 2026:  Monday Bible Study on Acts 10:1-8 Good morning my dear friends in Christ. I pray that your Christmas and New Years celebrations were times of joy for you and your family and friends. We had 16 for Christmas lunch and desserts, and 11 for homemade potato leek soup and split pea and ham soup on New Year's Day. Now the house is quiet, and our wonderful and beautiful collections of tree decorations, angels, snowmen, Santas, and around our house all the signs of

December 16, 2025:  Tuesday Bible Study on Acts 9:32-43 The sounds of Advent songs in church, and the neighborhood yard and house decorations all lend to this very important season of preparation and waiting. Once again, the gathering light of God's Truth and Love for all people is shining more brightly on our home Advent Wreaths, and on the one on the altar at church on Sunday mornings. We are now just a few days away from the fullness and light of the birthday of Jesus Chri

December 15, 2025:  Monday Bible Study on Acts 9:26-31 Blessings and peace, be with you on this third week of Advent. Though this study may reach you before tomorrow morning, I am working in the evening on Sunday. Not only is the red of our new tablecloth on the dining room table with poinsettia and an ornament and surrounded by goats. Yes, that is right, goats. In my family heritage from Sweden goats have always been a decoration for Christmas. They are generally constructed