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 20, 2026:  Monday Bible Study on Acts 15:22-35 For my dear friends in Christ. I am writing this Bible Study on Sunday evening, because we have a complication in our schedules due to the death of our sister-in-law in Grand Rapids, Michigan on Saturday evening. Her passing was not totally unexpected. We do not yet know the date of her Celebration of Life, but both Melody and I are planning on being with our nephew and niece and their families. We have begun making plans t

April 16, 2026:  Thursday Bible Study on Psalm 52 Blessings and Peace in the Name, and by the Power, of our Risen Savior. I hope that we can all pray for peace to be established between Lebanon and Israel, and between the Ukraine and Russia, and between our country and Iran. I know that it seems like a lot to ask of God, but with God all things are possible, and since we pray and live with the Holy Spirit in, with, and around us, we must know that we are guided by Christ's Gr

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 26, 2026:  Thursday Bible Study on Psalm 51 Dear friends in Christ, I am writing tomorrow's Psalm Study a day early. As I approach this weekend there are many obligations for Church, prep for music and rehearsals for Gospel Music on Palm Sunday, a conference meeting for the Kino conference (all our parishes in this part of the state), and a meeting with David Pavesic and Bishop Hutterer on Saturday afternoon to speak with them about American and the difficult time we ar

March 24, 2026:  Tuesday Bible Study on Acts 14:8-18 Blessing and Peace from our Lord and Savior be with you this morning. I am so glad that you are joining me for this study. Today we will learn some legendary history of a city, we will discover Paul's particular gift for speaking to people, and of course, we will see that sharing the Gospel is sometimes very difficult. Today I ask you to pray for the war between Iran, Israel, the United States, and Arab nations who are now

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

March 9, 2026:  Monday Bible Study on Acts 13:16-41 Good morning my dear friends in Christ. I want to let you know that we had one of our largest church attendances on a non-festival Sunday this past week. We had guests from Colorado who had been members of American in the past. Our regular guests from Wisconsin, and a new member with his fiancée, and of course, our worship regulars. What a blessing it was for the Gospel on that day. Please keep the following people in your p

March 5, 2026:  Thursday Bible Study on Psalm 49 Blessings and Peace be with you in this time of our nation's military personnel being in danger due to our government's actions in Iran. Please pray for their safety, and the safety of all people whose lives have been threatened due to where they are living in the Middle East. War, no matter whether we deem it necessary or questionable, is without doubt the outcome of the sin that is present in all people. Our journey during th

March 2, 2026:  Monday Bible Study on Acts 13:14-15 It is good to be back with you this morning. I hope that you had an opportunity to spend some time over the last four days enjoying the 101st Rodeo, its parade, and the Rodeo Grounds if you are so inclined. At least once we decided to head off to Disney Land over Rodeo. That was a great choice, but it rained! Yesterday we had a wonderful Gospel Music Sunday Worship. Our singers were in great voice, our drummer held us all to

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 23, 2026:  Monday Bible Study on Acts 13:4-12 Blessings and Peace be with you today. Today we should all continue to pray for those who have been mistreated by the ICE troops, and the Border Patrol and others. Pray for those immigrants in our midst who are interred in terrible conditions, even when they have lived and worked in our communities for years with no criminal records. They are not the worst of the worst, but their families, including young children, have b

February 19, 2026:  Thursday Bible Study on Psalm 48 Good morning, dear friends in Christ. I know that some of you who are doing these Bible Studies during the week are in much colder places than Tucson. However, today our high temperature is only going to be in the 50s. Up north that is spring weather, but here in Tucson it is cold (by our standards) and damp from light rain this morning. It is OK though, because next week, all week long we will be in the lower 80s during th

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 12, 2026:  Thursday Bible Study on Psalm 47 For all of us who are blessed by God's Love for us and all people in His creation, we will be together on Ash Wednesday this coming week as we begin the season of Lent in the Trinitarian congregations of Christ's Church. We will have services at Noon and 7PM next Wednesday which will include imposition of ashes and Holy Communion. This is a very special opportunity for us to find focus in our faith lives as we enter into th

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