Category Archives: Musings
Pastor Dan Hermanson – OCT 2021
In what ways are contemporary Americans like the Israelites of biblical times? How seriously do we Christians regard the individual responsibilities that we have toward family, neighbors, church or community? I’ve heard how hard it is to find people to teach Sunday School, work with youth, or serve on a church committee. And then we wonder why our churches are not growing, or why so many young people have strayed from the church.
Continue readingPastor Dan Hermanson – SEPT 2021
After over a year with no minimal contact with little ones, Rally Sunday is our opportunity to celebrate the little ones in our midst. God loves little ones! God uses little ones to show us a community where we don’t have to put on airs. A topsy-turvy community where the first are last and the lowest is the greatest, and a little child is the way to God.
Continue readingPastor Dan Hermanson – AUGUST 2021
Last summer it was a pandemic plague, this summer a drought and heat wave. Where is God in all this, behind it or working to end it? How much of this is simply the mysterious forces that occur naturally on this planet we call earth? How much responsibility do we humans carry for these odd patterns? These are complex dangerous questions we could argue over endlessly.
Continue readingPastor Dan Hermanson – JUNE JULY 2021
Along with coffee, communion and potluck suppers, music constitutes a big part of community life in many Lutheran churches. This all changed with the pandemic. Singing, the most basic human impulse, suddenly came with a warning label.
Continue readingPastor Dan Hermanson – MAY 2021
Our identity is set! We are children of God, disciples of Christ, and workers for the sake of God’s mission. It is God’s mission that shapes the day to day live of God’s people. This mission begins with a clear understanding that God wants to have a relationship with us by becoming one of us in Jesus Christ. Listen to Jesus, watch him in action, as we have done this Easter season, and there can be no doubt as to God’s intent.
Continue readingPastor Dan Hermanson – APRIL 2021
Every catechism deals with the Sacrament. Libraries are full of books of dogma that define teachings about the Lord’s Supper to protect it from misuse. Committees and commissions set the rules for who should come to a meal they call the Lord’s.
Continue readingPastor Dan Hermanson – FEB 2021
Yes, we are on the verge of Lent once more. Lent means spring and tears. During Lent our Sunday readings will tell of a personal journey, the journey of one human through human suffering and human crucifixion which become all the human journeys everywhere.
Continue readingPastor Dan Hermanson – JAN 2021
Dear friends in Christ at Peace and Grue, Do you make New Year's resolutions? Stop smoking, lose weight; exercise more, more sleep, whatever excess or overindulgence it is that nags at you. St. Paul in his letter to Titus (2:11-14) lays out a resolution that you can embrace as a Christian. An opportunity for training […]
Continue readingPastor Dan Hermanson – DEC 2020
The best place to see Jesus showing us the way is in the upper room where he “took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, ‘This is my body given for you. Do this in remembrance of me’”
Continue readingPastor Dan Hermanson – NOV 2020
Dear friends in Christ at Peace and Grue, "Truly, I say to you, I shall not drink again of the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God." Mark 14:25 These words from Mark’s account of the Last Supper remind us that when we come together, […]
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