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Dec 5, 20193 min read
A new direction
How will things ever change? There can be times we find ourselves feeling completely out of hope. “Beyond saving”- that is something I...
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Nov 27, 20193 min read
The power of connection
I love the Ball Pit video which you can see by clicking on the photo above or this link. It’s amazing what happens when we let go of our...
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Nov 20, 20194 min read
The power of quiet
A quiet mind, an open heart, a deep breath. This is the practice in the midst of Butterbraid deliveries, Lenten plans, bulletin...
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Nov 14, 20193 min read
Patient Endurance
We stand waiting and watching. We have a new copier- it is slower than the last one. I am calling it the “copier of patience”. We get to...
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Guest author- Carlyn Peterson
Nov 6, 20192 min read
Renewed for Life!
Renewed for Life is the final focus in our six-week Season for Renewal. We have heard, sung, and prayed about being renewed in faith,...
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Oct 30, 20193 min read
Generous Saints
She wrote a check each week. My mom didn’t put her weekly offering in an envelope. It was just a folded check. First hand, front row...
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Oct 24, 20193 min read
Forgetting...and Remembering
I forget. I forget my backpack. I forget I need gas in the car. I forget to turn on the dishwasher. I forget that you already told me...
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Oct 18, 20194 min read
Renewed by Prayer
Then Jesus told them a parable about their need to pray always and not to lose heart. Luke 18:1 Day by day. One moment, one breath at a...
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Oct 10, 20193 min read
Points of View
“Were not ten made clean? But the other nine, where are they?” - Jesus in Luke 17: 17 Curiosity? Judgment? Sorrow? It’s hard to know the...
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Oct 3, 20193 min read
Little things like mustard seeds
Small things. A prayer of a single word- thanks, help, wow. The two minutes it to takes to remember a bible verse and recite it as I take...
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Sep 12, 20194 min read
Lost and Found
The band Lost and Found (George Baum and Michael Bridges-now retired) performed at a local church about a year after their dad’s death. ...
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Sep 5, 20194 min read
Choices
When I was a freshman at St. Olaf College a group of us went to dinner at the Ground Round. This hamburger place had sawdust on the floor...
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Aug 30, 20194 min read
Fierce Conversations
Fierce: adj. robust, intense, strong, powerful, passionate, eager, unbridled We “get to” talk about and listen to words that will...
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Aug 22, 20194 min read
Perfect timing
The timing all worked out. I missed the appointment completely. The details all worked out, I didn’t bring my work backpack with my...
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Aug 15, 20194 min read
The devil and all the empty promises
Bright. Shiny. Seductive. If evil, Satan, the demonic, the “work of the devil”- looked dangerous and scary it would likely be simpler to...
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Aug 8, 20192 min read
Now faith is....
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen Hebrews 11:1 Oh to see it, to touch it, to hear it...
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Aug 1, 20192 min read
Angels unawares
Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. Hebrews 13:2 (RSV) There are over 300...
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Jul 27, 20193 min read
Livin' on a Prayer
“Sweet hour of prayer”. “Livin’ on a prayer”. From William W. Walford- a blind Baptist lay preacher in the 19th century writing about...
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Jul 18, 20194 min read
Choosing the better part
“there is need of only one thing. Mary has chosen the better part, which will not be taken away from her.” Luke 10:42 It is High Ropes...
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Jul 12, 20192 min read
When you need a friend
The Good Samaritan (Luke 10) may be the best known bible story of all times. This weekend as we hear it again I want to invite you to...
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