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Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ:

I pray you have had a blessed week and that you were able to also celebrate the 4th of July with family and friends.

I love the 4th of July. It is a great time to relax with family and friends, to watch parades, and to enjoy fireworks, but it is also a time to remember and give thanks for the abundance of blessings and freedoms we have…

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Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ:

I pray you have had a blessed week.

In my note last week, I talked about how it is not our job to save people; our job, as followers of Jesus, is to share the good news. That is, we only have to tell the story and share with people what God has done for us in our lives, and then our mission is complete. But if truth be told, we want more.…

Look Straight Ahead

Grace and peace to you from God, our Creator, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit, who abides in each of us.

As we have been reading through this Gospel of Luke, we know Jesus had been busy teaching, healing, and sharing the story of God’s redeeming work in the world. His disciples have come to realize and proclaim him to be the Messiah. Three of his disciples…

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Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ:

I pray you have had a blessed week.

It seems like every time I look at my Facebook page these days, someone is posting a photo where they are on their vacation. I guess it is that time of year when everyone is taking vacation or preparing travel somewhere for vacation.

In Jesus’ day, taking a vacation was not really something people…

This is Scary!

Grace and peace to you from God, our Creator, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit, who abides in each of us.

For the past several weeks now, we have heard about the great healing works of Jesus. We have read stories about how he healed the centurion’s slave without even being in her presence. We read about how he raised the dead man in Nain so the man could continue…

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Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ:

I pray you have had a blessed week.

All this week I have continued to be haunted by the massacre that took place in Orlando this past Sunday morning. Below is a letter that was sent out from our Bishop, Roger Gustafson that is a call to action.

“Dear Sisters and Brothers in the Central States Synod,

Yet one more lethal act of…

Abundant Grace

Grace and peace to you from God, our Creator, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit, who abides in each of us.

There is an old saying that that is often attributed to Joseph Kennedy, the father of John F. Kennedy, that goes, “Don’t get mad, get even!” Are you familiar with that saying? Now, no one really knows where that statement came from, but we are well…

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Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ:

I pray you have had a blessed week.

In our Gospel story this week, Luke 7:36-8:3, we read about how Jesus had been invited to eat with Simon, the Pharisee. Now we are not exactly sure why Simon wanted to eat with Jesus, but we can be pretty sure that he wanted “get the scoop” on who Jesus really was.

Jesus had been traveling around…

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Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ:

I pray you have had a blessed week.

In our gospel story from last Sunday, Luke 7:1-10, we heard how Jesus healed the slave of a Roman centurion. Now, although, we always like to hear about how Jesus healed people, my guess is that many of the Jews that were present when Jesus healed this man might not have been too happy about it. I mean,…

A Surprising Faith

Grace and peace to you from God, our Creator, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit, who abides in each of us.

I know, for many, the rains have made it difficult to completely enjoy the Memorial holiday weekend, but you know this weekend, tomorrow, specifically, marks the unofficial start of the summer. Yes, ever since the federal government passed a law back in the…

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