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Pastor 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 – 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 – 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 – FEB 2020
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 […]
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