by mtangen | Jan 30, 2025 | Pastor Chris
Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh. Jesus came down with them and stood on a level place, with a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea, Jerusalem, and the coast of Tyre and Sidon. They had come to hear him and to be...
by mtangen | Dec 17, 2024 | Pastor Chris
Expectations, expectations. In the days before Christmas, I was part of several conversations about expectations. Expectations for family and gatherings. Expectations for gift giving and using the proper recipe for cranberry sauce. Expectations of growing old with...
by mtangen | Nov 25, 2024 | Pastor Chris
When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let us go now to Bethlehem and see this thing that has taken place, which the Lord has made known to us.” So they went with haste and found Mary and Joseph and the child lying in...
by mtangen | Oct 23, 2024 | Pastor Chris
Do you have a plan to vote? Ted, Sam, and I had a plan to go to the Washington County Government Center to vote and then go out for breakfast—making an event of it and celebrating the liberty of exercising this powerful right as citizens and duty as people of faith....
by mtangen | Sep 24, 2024 | Pastor Chris
It is possible that we are an imago dei people?! Jesus was good at many things but perhaps the most astonishing thing he did during his ministry was to see, acknowledge, affirm, heal, and welcome all who had been rejected by the religious leaders, by the community, by...
by mtangen | Aug 26, 2024 | Pastor Chris
Then they came to Capernaum, and when he was in the house he asked them, “What were you arguing about on the way?” But they were silent, for on the way they had argued with one another who was the greatest. He sat down, called the twelve, and said to them, “Whoever...
