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Pastor’s Manna – Sanctuary July 1st – Together!
Sanctuary July 1st – Together! Three months ago, just before Holy Week began, the beam cover fell in the sanctuary creating a need for us to vacate our regular worship space for just over 14 weeks. We certainly wouldn’t have planned to be out of the sanctuary during significant worship occurrences (like Palm Sunday, Easter, […]
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Pastor’s Manna – There Ain’t No Cure for the Summertime Blues
There Ain’t No Cure for the Summertime Blues Eddie Cochran certainly didn’t have churches in mind when he sang his song “Summertime Blues”, but churches frequently experience the Summertime Blues. Somehow, we have gotten it in our mind that summer is a time when we can lessen all of our responsibilities. We take vacations, (and […]
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Pastor’s Manna – Pentecost People
I wrote last month about the need for us to be Easter people. Easter people are living in the knowledge and confidence that God loves them so much that He came up with a plan to bring about salvation for them. Easter people know that this was not earned or deserved, but a freely given […]
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Easter People Did you know that Easter is more than just one day, but rather an entire season in the church? Eastertide, or the Easter season, is the 50-day period of time starting on Easter Sunday and ending on Pentecost Sunday. Eastertide reminds us of the disciples’ lives as they waited for the sign to […]
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Are You a Follower? What does it mean to follow? In modern vernacular being a follower can have a negative connotation. It implies being of the herd mentality, unable to think for yourself, unwilling to set your own direction, or being mindless. Often we offer up another approach: you are either a Leader (GOOD!) or aFollower […]
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Pastor’s Manna – Changing Seasons
Changing Seasons Time is flying by us isn’t it? It seems like on Christmas morning, we just celebrated the birth of Jesus, and now we are finding ourselves preparing to enter Lent seven short weeks later. Ash Wednesday (February 14, 2018), marks the beginning of Lent, a time when we reflect upon Jesus’s journey toward the cross, […]
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Pastor’s Manna – A Fresh Start
I love the message of hope that we all can find at the beginning of the New Year. Each of us can always take the time to think about the past year. We can reflect upon the successes we had,, the opportunities we missed,, the things we would do differently, and the changes we might […]
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Pastor’s Manna: We All Declare the Glory of God
I love the advent season, there is truly something holy happening as the city, businesses, and homeowners decorate their homes to get ready for Christmas. It reminds me of the beginning of Psalm 19: The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth […]
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The Task of Reformation Last month I was able to visit some of the sites of Martin Luther’s reformation in Germany and study the history of the locations and importance of what happened. This was done in anticipation of the 500 th Anniversary of the date Luther nailed the 95 Theses on the door of […]
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The Task of Reformation On October 29th of this month we will celebrate Reformation Sunday. This is always the last Sunday of October, but what makes this Sunday special is that this is the 500th anniversary of the start of Martin Luther’s reformation. Germany has had a large celebration of this event. There are at […]
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