Pastor Dan Hermanson – OCT 2020
As we move into the Fall season, we are taking steps to move worship back into our buildings safely. As a community of faith, our primary concern is to follow Jesus’ commandment to love our neighbor. This means we safeguard the health and well being of our members and the general public. To achieve this goal we will be implementing the "Minnesota Employer Preparedness Plan for Safely Reopening Faith Based Communities and Places of Worship.”
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From the very beginning, Christian believers have gathered for worship, prayer, instruction, and “breaking bread” to remember Jesus, the One who called them into one Body, the Church.
Continue readingPastor Dan Hermanson – MAY 2020
What we are experiencing during these challenging times is a health crisis, a family crisis, a community crisis, and a financial crisis. Through it all we trust that God is with us, that God has got this, that God is bigger than the coronavirus crisis.
Continue readingPastor Dan Hermanson – MAR 2020
Six days later, Jesus took with him Peter and James and his brother John and led them up a high mountain, by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became dazzling white... suddenly a bright cloud overshadowed them, and from the cloud a voice said, […]
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Now among those who went up to worship at the feast were some Greeks. So these came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and asked him, "Sir, we wish to see Jesus" (John 12:20-21). In spite of the time and distance that separates his world from ours, Jesus continues to inspire people to […]
Continue readingPastor Marcus Kunz – MAR 2019
Normally I don’t ask people to fast during Lent or any other time of year. Many of the conversations I overhear about giving up chocolate or donuts trivialize our spiritual life with God and our neighbors. Moreover, chocolate and donuts are good things.
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You may have noticed how I’ve added a section of the Small Catechism to our worship each week. There’s a reason beyond just reviewing the teaching of the Commandments, Creed and Lord’s Prayer. Like the very first words we learn when learning how to talk or how to write, these words are building blocks of all our listening and reading, all our speaking and writing as Christians. They are the ABCs of our faith.
Continue readingPastor Marcus Kunz – NOV 2018
It’s a great privilege and joy for me to serve alongside of you during this time of transition in pastoral ministry. Until the parish council makes arrangements for more permanent pastoral service, I will be leading worship and preaching on Sundays, teaching the confirmation class on Wednesdays, and available for urgent pastoral care.
Continue readingPastor Kent Krumwiede – SEPT
Saying goodbye is hard—to family and friends, to a favorite and familiar place, to an occupation or livelihood.
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It is one month until the first day of summer as I write this. Hopefully, the needed rains will have come and the fields and gardens will be on their way to producing a treasure of produce.
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