April 2025

Pastor's Message

Pastor Leonard Hummel

Dear Members of Neighbors in Christ Parish,

Grace and peace to you this month—a month that begins with Lent and ends with Easter.

For our Wednesday Lenten Worship, I have been blessed to share with you my reflections on “Consolation for Suffering: Good News in Scripture and Luther’s Theology.”  I hope that my reflections have conveyed Gospel blessings to you.

As I have mentioned during our worship, my Lenten reflections are taken from a published work of mine.  Clothed in Nothingness: Consolation for Suffering. (Fortress Press: Minneapolis) 2003.

Some of you have asked me how one might acquire a copy of that work "if one wished to do so".

I underlined and highlighted the words,"if one wished to do so", because I have no expectations that anyone might or should buy a book of mine. 

On the other hand, I hope that whoever might choose to acquire the book will be blessed in some way by what I have written.

Here is a website that makes purchase possible:

https://www.fortresspress.com/store/product/9780800634551/Clothed-in-Nothingness

Again, I been blessed to be with you in sharing my reflections with you this Lenten Season.

And I am blessed to be your Pastor.

Pastor Leonard Hummel