by mtangen | Jul 26, 2021 | Pastor Chris
Friends, Are you finding time this summer to rest, re-create, refresh? Time away from the normal routine? Time to listen to the birds, watch the river or a baseball game? Summer is an evocative season. Rhubarb crisp stirs up childhood memories of finding shapes in the...
by mtangen | Jun 24, 2021 | Pastor Chris
I was 12 years old when I first became aware of the swift passing of time. I remember sitting in my first math class of 7th grade thinking: Where had the summer gone? Is this what Mom means when she talks about time going so quickly? All these years later, that moment...
by mtangen | May 24, 2021 | Pastor Chris
‘Jesus woke up and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” Then the wind ceased, and there was a dead calm.’ – Mark 4:39 “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our...
by mtangen | Apr 28, 2021 | Pastor Chris
I am the vine, you are the branches. Those who abide in me and I in them bear much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing. – John 15: 5 Sometimes it is helpful to be reminded that I am not the vine. It seems obvious, but when one is part of the dominant...
by mtangen | Mar 22, 2021 | Pastor Chris
Friends, Christ is Risen! As you can probably imagine, these articles are due well ahead of the day they arrive in your inboxes and mailboxes. So, it may be a sunny day as you read, but as I write I can see out the window of my home office that a band of snow has...
by mtangen | Feb 23, 2021 | Pastor Chris
A year. That’s how long it has been since we were last in one space together. How long it’s been since we passed bread from hand to hand, lifted our voices in unison, welcomed the children running back in into worship eager to share what they had learned about God...
