At the time he delivered The Big Snow, BRUCE M. HARTUNG was accepting invitations to preach from various Lutheran churches in the Northern Illinois area while he was Director of the Community Pastoral Counseling and Consultation Center and Senior Pastor of Parkside Human Services Corporation, both in Park Ridge. As of September 1983, he became the new Executive Director of the Onondaga Pastoral Counseling Center, Syracuse, New York. In his sermon The Big Snow, Hartung takes the contemporary event of a large snow storm in his area and many of the concrete, particular manifestations of it along with accompanying human reactions, and uses the experience to reflect on the predicament we put ourselves in by trying to assume the prerogative of the Creator and a domination of the creation.

It beg…