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In 1968 Jerry Snell opened a door in the hallway outside our first hour chemistry class. He invited me into what I discovered was a darkroom. Soon I was on the school newspaper and annual staff as a photographer. Later I learned that Jerry was a Lutheran who was planning to become a pastor. A few years later I was not only a Lutheran, but I was heading off to seminary to become a Lutheran pastor, too. Jerry followed a year later and served as a pastor in Missouri until his untimely heart attack and death. I thank God for Jerry and enjoy photography still today – not to mention rejoicing in having served as a Lutheran pastor in congregations in Utah, Colorado, Arkansas and Texas. I’ve retired now and serve part time as a Congregational Support Specialist for the Texas District of the LCMS. I also provide coaching and leadership training through various PLI cohorts and with individual congregations and organizations. David Bahn is a follower of Jesus Christ, husband to Diane, father and grandfather. He is an avid amateur photographer. His photo website is “Flowers by God Photos by David” He also publishes a devotional blog DavidBahn-Reflections.com. He and Diane live in Cypress Texas and enjoy visiting their grandchildren who live in the United States and Germany. He graduated from Concordia Theological Seminary in 1979, and earned a Doctor of Ministry degree from Fuller Theological Seminary in 1991. Diane, his wife, is now retired from PLI (PLIleadership.org). They have offered presentations on Marriage and Ministry Partnership, Leadership, Changing Your Congregation’s Culture, and Missional Living. They look are working with PLI International training pastors and wives of the ELVD Diocese of the Lutheran Church of Tanzania. David’s personal mission statement is “Leading people to realize Jesus’ calling and plans for their lives.”

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  • 49 Week Challenge – Day 52: The True Source of All Things

    49 Week Challenge – Day 52: The True Source of All Things

    NOTE: I will have limited access to internet for the next two weeks. Be assured, however, that even if I don’t post here I am keeping up the 49 Week Bible Challenge. I encourage you to join me in this discipline. I am using the YouVersion 49 Week Bible Challenge for these devotions. Today’s readings…

  • 49 Week Challenge – Day 51: Forgive us, Lord, for Feast that Knows No Fast

    49 Week Challenge – Day 51: Forgive us, Lord, for Feast that Knows No Fast

    NOTE: I will have limited access to internet for the next two weeks. Be assured, however, that even if I don’t post here I am keeping up the 49 Week Bible Challenge. I encourage you to join me in this discipline. I am using the YouVersion 49 Week Bible Challenge for these devotions. Today’s readings…

  • 49 Week Challenge – Day 50: For Such a Time as This

    49 Week Challenge – Day 50: For Such a Time as This

    NOTE: I will have limited access to internet for the next two weeks. Be assured, however, that even if I don’t post here I am keeping up the 49 Week Bible Challenge. I encourage you to join me in this discipline. I am using the YouVersion 49 Week Bible Challenge for these devotions. Today’s readings…

  • Today’s Psalms for June 22, 2025

    Please pray these psalms with me on this Lord’s Day Psalm 22 O Lord,  My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?     Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning? 2 O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer,     and by night, but I find no rest. 3 Yet…

  • Special Edition: Rejoicing Along the Way

    Special Edition: Rejoicing Along the Way

    Romans 12:9-12 Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. 10 Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor. 11 Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord. 12 Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer. On June 21, 1975, Pastor Robert Lange preached our wedding sermon based…

  • 49 Week Challenge – Day 47: Little or Great Faith

    49 Week Challenge – Day 47: Little or Great Faith

    Click here for an audio version of this podcast I am using the YouVersion 49 Week Bible Challenge for these devotions. Today’s readings are Matthew 14; Leviticus 18; Genesis 40; 1 Chronicles 10. Matthew 14:22-33 Immediately he made the disciples get into the boat and go before him to the other side, while he dismissed…

  • 49 Week Challenge – Day 46: Finding Peace Amidst Division

    49 Week Challenge – Day 46: Finding Peace Amidst Division

    Click here for an audio version of this podcast I am using the YouVersion 49 Week Bible Challenge for these devotions. Today’s readings are Matthew 10; Micah 7; Jeremiah 50; 1 Samuel 14. Matthew 10:34-42 [Jesus says,] “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to…

  • 49 Week Challenge – Day 45: Sometimes we carry, our friends. Sometimes they carry us.

    49 Week Challenge – Day 45: Sometimes we carry, our friends. Sometimes they carry us.

    Click here for an audio version of this podcast I am using the YouVersion 49 Week Bible Challenge for these devotions. Today’s readings are Matthew 9; Hosea 6; Numbers 27; 2 Chronicles 35. Matthew 9:1-13 And getting into a boat Jesus crossed over and came to his own city. 2 And behold, some people brought to him a…

  • 49 Week Challenge – Day 44: The Touch of Jesus

    49 Week Challenge – Day 44: The Touch of Jesus

    Click here for an audio version of this podcast I am using the YouVersion 49 Week Bible Challenge for these devotions. Today’s readings are Mark 5: Leviticus 15; Psalm 142. Mark 5:21-43 And when Jesus had crossed again in the boat to the other side, a great crowd gathered about him, and he was beside…

  • 49 Week Challenge – Day 43: Jesus’ Threefold Office

    49 Week Challenge – Day 43: Jesus’ Threefold Office

    Click here for an audio version of this podcast I am using the YouVersion 49 Week Bible Challenge for these devotions. Today’s readings are Mark 4; Jeremiah 16; Psalm 147; Ezekiel 31. Mark 4:30-41 And Jesus said, “With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable shall we use for it? 31 It is like a…