American Ev. Lutheran Church
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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

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 5, 2026:  Thursday Bible Study on Psalm 46 Dear friends in Christ. Your study is a little late coming today. Please keep Sharyn and her family in your prayers for the death of her sister Sonya early this morning in Phoenix. Sonya has been in hospice care now for a number of months. Pray for the LORD'S comfort and Peace to be with Sonya's family as the sure and certain hope of the Resurrection surrounds them in their grief and loss. Pray too please for Lisa as she rec

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 29, 2026:  Thursday Bible Study on Psalm 45 Blessings and Peace be yours today and always. I am not certain if you have noticed the uptick in Tucson traffic, however, no matter where you drive you are going to encounter heavy traffic. I implore you to drive carefully when you are out because there are a few additional crazy people out there. In the last two days on the early morning drive, I have had 6 cars drive by me in excess of 80 miles an hour in a 45-speed zone.

January 27, 2026:  Tuesday Bible Study on Acts 11:11-18 Good morning, dear friends in Christ. I pray that this is a day filled with calm for you, our entire community at American, here in Tucson, and across our country. In the events of the last several days in Minnesota, there have been troubling videos of the killing of a VA ICU nurse. I am certain that you might like to know where I stand on all this immigration enforcement that has been taking place under the President. I

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 21, 2026:  Thursday Bible Study on Psalm 44 Blessings and Peace be with you on this cloudy cool morning in Tucson, and if you are some place more sunny and warmer, give thanks to God for your good fortune. Please remember to keep the people in the south of our nation in your prayers as they prepare to have a massive bitter cold, ice and snowstorm race through their states and communities. I know that we have suffered with a drought for about 15 years here in the deser

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 15, 2026:  Thursday Bible Study on Psalm 43 Blessing and Peace in Jesus Christ be with you today. This morning, I was able to practice at church without the need for a jacket in our unheated sanctuary. It was lovely there, and it always gives me an opportunity to appreciate our chancel area (the space which holds our altar, the Moravian Star, the Lectern, the organ, and the bell choir tables and bells). It is really a wonderful place to work on music and more. I will

January 13, 2026:  Tuesday Bible Study on Acts 10:34-43 Rejoice in the Light of Christ and always remember that this is the day that the LORD has made, rejoice, and be glad in it! I am doing all my Bible studies at home during this year. It is an attempt to keep heat off in the office area during these winter months, and to keep air off in the warmer and hotter months, except for the two days each week when the office is open. Here at home, the house is already heated, BUT ou