David Bahn – Reflections

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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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  • Conformity or Conviction?

    Click here for an audio version of this blog post. Acts 8:1-13 Saul was one of the witnesses, and he agreed completely with the killing of Stephen. A great wave of persecution began that day, sweeping over the church in Jerusalem; and all the believers except the apostles were scattered through the regions of Judea…

  • We’re all converts

    Click here for an audio version of this blog post. Acts 8:1-13 Saul was one of the witnesses, and he agreed completely with the killing of Stephen. A great wave of persecution began that day, sweeping over the church in Jerusalem; and all the believers except the apostles were scattered through the regions of Judea…

  • Today’s Psalms for September 24, 2023

    Please pray these psalms with me on this Lord’s Day. As a kid I really misunderstood Psalm 23. I thought, I DO want the Lord! I didn’t realize “I shall not want,” meant that I will lack nothing. Note, also how in verse 4 David no longer talks about God, but talks to God. Psalm…

  • The Eyes of Faith

    Click here for an audio version of this blog post. Acts 7:1, 44-60 And the high priest said, “Are these things so?” 2 And Stephen said:  “Our fathers had the tent of witness in the wilderness, just as he who spoke to Moses directed him to make it, according to the pattern that he had seen. 45 Our fathers in turn brought…

  • Life After Death

    Click here for an audio version of this blog post. Acts 7:1, 44-60 And the high priest said, “Are these things so?” 2 And Stephen said:  “Our fathers had the tent of witness in the wilderness, just as he who spoke to Moses directed him to make it, according to the pattern that he had seen. 45 Our fathers in turn brought…

  • Buildings or Hearts?

    Click here for an audio version of this blog post. Acts 7:1, 44-60 And the high priest said, “Are these things so?” 2 And Stephen said:  “Our fathers had the tent of witness in the wilderness, just as he who spoke to Moses directed him to make it, according to the pattern that he had seen. 45 Our fathers in turn brought…

  • The Good Old Days

    Click here for an audio version of this blog post. Acts 7:1, 44-60 And the high priest said, “Are these things so?” 2 And Stephen said:  “Our fathers had the tent of witness in the wilderness, just as he who spoke to Moses directed him to make it, according to the pattern that he had seen. 45 Our fathers in turn brought…

  • What gets you riled?

    Click here for an audio version of this blog post. Acts 7:1, 44-60 And the high priest said, “Are these things so?” 2 And Stephen said:  “Our fathers had the tent of witness in the wilderness, just as he who spoke to Moses directed him to make it, according to the pattern that he had seen. 45 Our fathers in turn brought…

  • Today’s Psalms for September 17, 2023

    Please pray these psalms with me on this Lord’s Day Psalm 17:6-9, 15 I call upon you, for you will answer me, O God;    incline your ear to me; hear my words.7 Wondrously show your steadfast love,    O Savior of those who seek refuge    from their adversaries at your right hand. 8 Keep me as the apple of your eye;    hide me in the shadow of…

  • When will we ever learn? [Minor Edit #2!]

    Click here for an audio version of this blog post. Acts 7:1, 30-43 And the high priest said, “Are these things so?” 2 And Stephen said: “Now when forty years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush. 31 When Moses saw it, he was amazed at the…