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Have you ever felt that the resources and gifts you have to offer are so meager and insignificant, that they will not make an impact in the Kingdom of God? If you can’t sing like an angel, preach so that people fall on their knees, pray that the earth would shake,...

The whole idea that we can manage time is really a misnomer. We can’t really manage time. We can’t delay it, speed it up, create it, save it, or lose it. I suppose we could manually stop a clock, but no matter what we do, time keeps moving forward at the same rate....

Mother’s Day - Sunday, May 12, 2024 This Sunday is Mother’s Day, and we’ll talk about motherhood and serving. The two words are not unrelated. It’s not easy being parents today. One mother was talking to an old college friend and said, “I remember before I was...

Have you ever wondered why the evening news begins with “Good evening” and then proceeds to tell us why it isn’t?  The Christian life is one of paradox. Jesus taught that we find our lives … by losing it (Matthew 10:39), and that we are exalted by being humble. “For...

There were two men named Caleb and Joshua. They went on a mission to check out some land their people were going to live in. This land is known as the Promise Land, a place flowing with milk and honey. Except other people were already living there, big, scary,...

Probably best loved, best known and greatest verse in all the Bible is John 3:16. Depending on the translation, there are only 26 words to the verse Martin Luther called the miniature gospel. “For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever...

Maybe you found a way to see the solar eclipse last Monday, even though in Minnesota it was mostly cloudy. The momentary darkness of a solar eclipse can serve as a reminder of just how important the light from the sun is to our lives. Jesus once said, “I am the light...

It has been said, “It’s easier to be ignorant and reliant, than it is to be informed and responsible.”  My sense is that it’s more convenient today to talk about being a victim, than it is to take responsibility for an incident. This is most unfortunate since success...