Symbols of Pleasure, Gifts from Above

Our lives are filled with symbols. They’re printed on billboards and designed into logos, sewn onto clothing and emblazoned on monitors. Even without words, these symbols communicate their messages loud and clear. The smiling box on your doorstep promises instant …

Read More →

Blessed Again … in Milwaukee

Y4Life Teams are active and well in Lutheran high schools as well as on Lutheran college campuses. Concordia Wisconsin has a thriving Y4Life Team that engages with students on campus and people in the community. Bonnie Egger, a member of CUW’s Students for Life …

Read More →

More than Historians

The famous quote, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” is often attributed to George Santayana, a professor, philosopher, essayist, and poet who lived during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Throughout his lifetime, Santayana …

Read More →

A New Y4Life Team!

Trinity Lutheran High School started a Y4Life Team this fall, and we’re excited to welcome them to the LFL family! They hosted an ice cream social in October to gauge interest in a Y4Life Leadership Team and decide what areas of life ministry they …

Read More →

“Exactly What God Would Want Us to Do”

I visited a number of high schools this fall, and one of them was Milwaukee Lutheran High School. While setting up for my presentation to the student body that morning, a select choir just happened to be practicing on stage. …

Read More →

The First Two Months

What do the first two months of serving as LFL’s new director of Y4Life look like? I think I can answer that in one word: Busy! In addition to participating in a week of on-site training and participating in two conferences designed …

Read More →

Hope-Filled Promises

Photo: (l-r) LFL’s Michelle Bauman, Kim Nessa, and Jerilyn Richard at the 2019 FLY (Free Lutheran Youth) Convention in Estes Park, Colorado, July 2019. “But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, …

Read More →