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January 17, 2018

All About Me

Romans 14:7-8 Life is pretty hard for my little children sometimes. Now I don’t want you to feel badly for them. I don’t mean they don’t have enough toys or a warm place to sleep or meals. What’s hard for them, every day, many times every day, is finding out the bitter reality that life isn’t all about them. All...

Kyle Madson/Romans

January 15, 2018

Calming Life’s Storms

Matthew 8:26 For a while, one of my daughters pretended that she could control the wind. She would joke to her siblings about being able to make it blow or stop. That would be a pretty neat power to have wouldn’t it? I think we all have a fascination with being able to defy the laws of nature. But who...

Matthew/Timothy Hartwig

January 12, 2018

What is Church?

Romans 1:16 What do you call church? I think for most American Christians we refer to what we do on Sunday morning as worship. And it’s an appropriate term. We come to church to offer God our prayers and praise and to bring him our gifts as well. Is that really all we do on Sunday morning? Or even the...

Matthew Moldstad/Romans

January 11, 2018

Perfect Resolutions

Luke 9:51 Watch on YouTube You’ve had a bit of time, what’s the list like? Is it perfectly completed? Does it look curiously like last year’s list? Maybe even exactly, because it needed rework? Resolutions can be good discipline for us. It can point us to things that are good for us, maybe guard us against things that aren’t so...

Kyle Madson/Luke

December 5, 2017

Are you Anxious?

Philippians 4:6 Watch on YouTube – Watch on Facebook Does something have you up late at night, tossing and turning, cold sweats? Something gnawing at your stomach? What has you anxious? Relationship? Health? School? Finances? What are we to do with anxiety? God tells us in Philippians chapter 4 verse 6: Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything,...

Philippians/Timothy Hartwig

October 10, 2017

Why are we so busy?

Psalm 127:1-2 As a family sometimes our schedule can get crazy. We think about all the things we have to do: pick up Billy from school, drop off Johnny at soccer practice, bring Susie to ballet, and rush home for supper. And our schedule the next day’s just as busy filled with piano lesson and math team. Why do we...

Matthew Moldstad/Psalms

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