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Pastor Ryan
May 13, 2024
I was in a group and a beautiful sentiment was offered in our conversation: there is no such thing as a bad prayer. They’re right.
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Pastor Adrienne
April 29, 2024
When I introduce Family Ministry in our New Member class, I like to ask the question, “What are your first memories of church?”
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Pastor Ryan
April 22, 2024
My wife left me, well, for a few days as she went on a trip. I had our two boys, and my job was to be Daddy. I have been a father for a while now. This is old hat.
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Pastor Scott
April 15, 2024
With the vote on April 14 to cease worship at Christ Concord and to put the land up for sale, we find ourselves looking towards the horizon for a new vision from God to emerge...
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Pastor Adrienne
April 8, 2024
We are starting a huge congregation-wide project! It is a new endeavor, and it doesn’t involve donations or service hours. It involves prayer!
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Pastor Scott
April 1, 2024
On April 14, following the late service, we will have a congregational meeting to discuss and vote upon the future vision and direction of Christ Concord.
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Pastor Ryan
March 25, 2024
There is something truly humbling about washing feet. That’s probably why Jesus said that if you are to be a leader you must be a servant, you must wash feet.
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Eric Hauck
March 18, 2024
The safety of my frozen lake and gray sky 800 miles in the past, I wait in a winter sun. My bag, filled with virtuosic etudes by Chopin and the Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodies, carries the truly daunting:
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Pastor Adrienne
March 11, 2024
The Saturday before last we had Story Day. Story Day is offered for our second graders who are ready to receive instruction to take their First Communion.
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Pastor Ryan
March 4, 2024
Jesus asks this question twice, in the same chapter of Mark 10. “What do you want from me?” How would you answer that? I think I know how I would answer, or at least how I think I would answer...
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Pastor Scott
February 26, 2024
As promised at the Annual Meeting, we have three town meetings for you to choose from to hear about options for our Southland and to provide feedback. Please...
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Pastor Adrienne
February 19, 2024
See these two pictures? I was on my balcony a couple of summers ago and saw these garage gutters sprouting—bursting—with new life!
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Pastor Ryan
February 12, 2024
I think we all know someone who has spoken a word to another in a hurtful way. Then the hurt given is excused because it was spoken in love...
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Pastor Scott
February 5, 2024
Lent comes early this year with Ash Wednesday coming on Valentine’s Day, February 14. (Nothing says “I love you” more than taking your sweetheart to a worship service to talk about ashes, sin, and death!)
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Pastor Adrienne
January 22, 2024
Over the weekend, Natalya, Tyler, and I attended Extravaganza in New Orleans! Extravaganza is the ELCA’s Youth Ministry Network’s annual conference...
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