Dear Friends, I am excited to announce to you that we are starting a new confirmation class in February. I am looking forward to sharing about the Bible, the Church, and the saving Grace of Jesus Christ with some of our young people. As you know, in our tradition, we...
Dear Friends, I am writing this in mid-December but thinking about January directs my thoughts for the new year. The excitement of Christmas is starting to wane. Many have already taken down their Christmas tree. We are getting ready to go back to business as usual....
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being 4 in him was life,[a] and the life...
So, here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for Him. Don’t...
Dear friends, I have been blessed to be with you this past month and to have gotten a chance to meet many of you and to have had opportunities to get to know some of you better. I have discovered positive relationships in our church and the elements that really make...
Dear friends, Thank you for the warm welcome I have received since my wife and I have arrived. We are new to this part of Wisconsin and have enjoyed hearing tips of things to see and do. We have been busy with unpacking and getting settled into our new community. It...
Rush, rush, rush. Hurry, hurry, hurry. Is this the way you feel some days? Is this the way your days are sometimes? I know that I have days and weeks and even months that feel and are this way. Then I remember a passage that is meant to bring me to a stop. It...
April is upon us and Easter, along with spring, which began in March, is bringing us flowers, green grass, buds on the trees and more time outside. What are you going to do to celebrate Easter this year? Easter is the most important holiday, or Holy Day, in the...
Many years are known for something that happens during the year or an individual whose actions or personality had an immense impact on the year. I am sure that this last year will be remembered by the word, COVID-19. For me a different word is going to be what marks...