THIRSTY 8 (Zarling Wierschke Laitinen)
This week Pastor Laitinen and Pastor Zarling interview Pastor David Wierschke who serves at Trinity Lutheran Church in Caledonia, WI. Pastor Zarling and Pastor Wierschke invite Pastor Laitinen to join them this summer as they bike for beer to the various beer gardens in Milwaukee. We talk about the need for pastors and people to go on retreats, much like the disciples did on the mountain with Jesus before heading down into the valley of suffering and death.
We discuss the Gospel lesson for this Sunday where Luke writes about Moses and Elijah on the Mount of Transfiguration with Jesus. We talk all things Transfiguration – Jesus’ exodus, why Moses and Elijah, the voice of the Father from the cloud, coming down the mountain to carry the cross of discipleship, and more. Then we also discuss the Epistle and Old Testament lessons where Moses is wearing a veil after being in the presence of the glory of the Lord.
Stay thirsty, my friends. Quench that thirst in the Water of Life.
THIRSTY 7 (Zarling Selle Laitinen)
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 5 (Kock / Laitinen / Zarling)
THIRSTY 4 (Laitinen Zarling Hundley)
THIRSTY 3 (Laitinen Zarling Laitinen)
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.