THIRSTY 6 (Laitinen / Ring / Zarling)

This week Pastor Laitinen and Pastor Zarling interview Principal David Ring. Mr. Ring currently serves as the principal at Wisconsin Lutheran School (WL) in Racine, WI. Water of Life, where Pastor Zarling serves, is one of the two congregations that support WLS. We discuss the blessings and woes of School Choice at Wisconsin Lutheran School and Shoreland Lutheran High School as we discuss the blessings and woes of Jesus’ beatitudes in Luke 6:17-26. We talk about how the beatitudes are not a New Testament version of the Ten Commandments on how to live. Rather, through Christ, the beatitudes are statements of fact. They are descriptions of Christ and the disciples of Christ. 
  
We also discuss 2 Corinthians 12:7-10 where St. Paul mentions this thorn in the flesh. It seems like Paul was crazy for boasting in his weakness. We wonder how we can teach the children, teenagers, and adults in our spiritual care to accept their weaknesses, and even learn to boast in them. 

THIRSTY 2 (Zarling Laitinen Bauer)

 Pastor Laitinen and Pastor Zarling have begun a new season of Thirsty podcasts in 2022. This year we are studying the upcoming Gospel lesson and other Scripture readings for Sunday morning, digging into the doctrine, and applying God’s Word to the lives of God’s people. Each week we will also have pastors, teachers, missionaries, professors, and lay people as guests. 
 
Our first guest is Pastor Tom Bauer, the campus pastor at Shoreland Lutheran High School. We discuss Jesus’ first miracle at the wedding at Cana in John 2:1-11 and how we have a God who takes care of us most often with ordinary, mundane, daily bread type of gifts and miracles. We also discuss Pastor Bauer’s and Pastor Laitinen’s ministry to youth. We consider the difference between relating to youth and being relevant to the youth – knowing that teens can easily pick out being fake. 
 
Stay thirsty, my friends. Quench that thirst in the Water of Life. 

WORSHIP TIMES - Racine Campus

Sundays at 8:00 AM & 10:45 AM

WORSHIP TIMES - Caledonia Campus

Sundays at 9:30 AM