Category Archives: Musings
Pastor Dan Hermanson – Sept 2024
As we approach this year’s confirmation class, I'm reminded of Martin Luther’s enduring wisdom: we never outgrow our need to study the basics of our faith.
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In the Northern Hemisphere it’s summer: a time of vacation, rest, and renewal, but not necessarily for all of us. The word is out. Americans take less time off and enjoy fewer days of vacation than any other industrialized nation in the West.
Continue readingPastor Dan Hermanson – June-July 2024
The thin layer of soil which surrounds the earth forms a bridge between life and death, food and famine, the present and the future. Wherever such issues are involved, God is sure to be there. This newsletter summaries four elements of that involvement.
Continue readingPastor Dan Hermanson – May 2024
Today just happens to be Earth Day, a day to “PRAISE GOD ALL CREATURES HERE BELOW.” This second line of the doxology professes the message of Psalm 96.
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Simple familiar words spoken: “The body of Christ, given for you.” “The blood of Christ, shed for you.” In these small acts and few words, Christians return to the heart of our faith, joining ourselves together with every other believer, not just across the world, but in an age old continuity reaching back to Jesus himself.
Continue readingPastor Dan Hermanson – Feb 2024
“For it is the God who said, ‘Let light shine out of darkness,’ who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.” (2 Corinthians 4:6)
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As we enter this new year, the year of Mark, here is what you need to know. Mark’s Gospel is written from a very definite perspective.
Continue readingPastor Dan Hermanson – Dec 2023
“For I am not ashamed of the gospel: it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who has faith, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed through faith for faith: as it is written, “The one who is righteous will live by faith.”
Continue readingPastor Dan Hermanson – Nov 2023
“For I am not ashamed of the gospel: it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who has faith, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed through faith for faith: as it is written, “The one who is righteous will live by faith.”
Continue readingPastor Dan Hermanson – Oct 2023
I suppose that is precisely the transformation, to be stripped of our illusions, to gain some clarity about who we are and what we are up to. For what do we have in the end but the shocking realization that we are saved by grace alone?
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