Pastor's Update

Health Analysis

How is your health? Are there aches and pains that you should be paying attention to? How is your blood sugar or blood pressure? Have you had a checkup? Of course, doctors prescribe checkups at many times over a person’s life. There is the well-baby checkups, checkups before entering school,...

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Let Your Light Shine

Certainly most everyone in our community has heard about the battle that has been waged to take down the star and cross from La Crescent’s sky line. Of course the battle is about city property displaying religious symbols. Unfortunately, we know the story oh, so well in our society today, the...

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Free to Give Glory to God

As we consider and thank God for the freedoms that we have in this nation, I wonder what the founding fathers would think of our freedom today. I wonder what the many soldiers who gave their lives in defense of this nation and our freedoms would think. Think about what, you ask? Think about the way...

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The Prodigal - Coming Home

I’ve been gone too long Counting all my wrongs Wandering in my ways Suffering through some days   Can’t hold onto pride I’ve got no place to hide I humbly seek your grace On me you’ll lift your face   I walk to you, to me you...

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Dead Before, Not Again

Have you heard it said, we’re all dead Death conceived at life, born and bred. How can one escape the fate we dread? Death came to all men because all sinned. But hope is not dead, you can live instead. Been dead before, not again Buried in Jesus’ death, raised up with...

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Simple Easter Faith

Why is it that the ones that are seen as weak are at times the strongest of them all? Many years ago a family gathered for the funeral of their grandfather. As many of the family were crying near the casket, up walked a three year old boy and he simply asked, “Why are you crying? Grandpa is...

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Stopping Point

There is an end or a stopping point to almost everything we do or experience in this life. We are creatures of time, of starts and stops. We stop working at a certain time and at a certain age. We stop going to school at a certain time and a certain age. We stop playing. We stop exercising. We stop...

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Let The Children Come

(from the 2014 annual report) John 3:16 is probably the most familiar passage of Scripture and most memorized. It is the sweet message of God’s love for sinners. “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have...

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Meaning in a Meaningless World

For none of us lives to himself alone and none of us dies to himself alone. 8 If we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord. Dear friends in Christ, I have never learned and lost so much in one year. As you reflect on...

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Come Peace

Before the Christmas trees Decorations or holly leaves Before the songs were wrote Christ came for me A light shining oh, so bright Illuminating the darkness night God’s Son the Holy Child Christ came for me   Before the cookies and cakes All the food that...

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