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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Pastor 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.

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Pastor Marcus Kunz – FEB 2019

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.

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Pastor Kent Krumwiede – JUNE/JULY

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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Pastor Kent Krumwiede – JUNE/JULY

These are two of the texts appointed for Ascension Day, observed this year on May 25th.Acts 1:[1-5] 6-9 [10-11]Luke 24:44-53 I think we often “romanticize” this part of the Gospel story, if we don’t forget it totally. If the latter is what happens, we skip from resurrection right over to Pentecost. I suspect there are some […]

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Pastor Kent Krumwiede – MARCH

Lent is upon us. The seasons of Christmas and Epiphany has flown by. Ash Wednesday will be a reminder that we are nothing but ash.

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Musings from Pastor Tom Olson – JAN

Dear Peace and Grue Family...It is a new year and a new beginning for our parish as we welcome Pastor Kent and Lisa Krumweide to our community.

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Musings from Pastor Tom Olson – OCT

Our Lord also appreciates harvest time, but he has a different kind of harvest in mind when he says, ”The harvest is plentiful but the laborers are few”.

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Musings from Pastor Tom Olson – MAR 2016

I once heard a preacher say that too many people are trying to get into the Promised Land without going through the wilderness. It might also be said that too many people are trying to get to Easter without going through Good Friday.

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