Your Giving Really Matters

Your Giving Really Matters

by | Jun 8, 2023 | Pastor Chris

Friends,With a successful comprehensive campaign underway, it’s easy to overlook the most critical part of our shared financial wellbeing: stewardship giving and the general operating fund. This remains our financial priority, even as the comprehensive campaign has...
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Actually, I’m not “fine.”

by | May 23, 2023 | Pastor Chris

Actually, I’m not “fine.” “Don’t be bluffed into silence by the threats of bullies. There’s nothing they can do to your soul, your core being. Save your fear for God, who holds your entire life—body and soul—in God’s hands.” – Matthew 10:28 (MSG) Those of you who...
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Breathing in and breathing out…

by | Apr 26, 2023 | Pastor Chris

After preaching on the wonderful John 20 text when Jesus offers powerful peace, I have been thinking of the church as a great pair of, well, lungs. It’s not a very glamorous metaphor for the church but apt, I think. We live most of our lives in the world, at work and...
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There They Will See Me

by | Mar 29, 2023 | Pastor Chris

Suddenly Jesus met them and said, “Greetings!” And they came to him, took hold of his feet, and worshiped him. Then Jesus said to them, “Do not be afraid; go and tell my brothers and sisters to go to Galilee; there they will see me.”  – Matthew 28:9-10 There they will...
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Saint and WHAT?!

by | Feb 23, 2023 | Pastor Chris

Saint and WHAT?! Is it just me or does Lent feel like the season for sinners. What? You don’t like that term? If you have been around Lutherans for any length of time, you have no doubt heard the phrase “sinner and saint” used to describe the people of God. Our...