Pastor's Update

11/1/2014 10:02:35 PM

From your (part time, volunteer, junior) pastor

Greetings from Rochester!  You’ll be seeing me a little bit more often for the next few weeks.  I’m planning to preach at First Lutheran on November 2 and November 9.  In fact, on November 9 I’m bringing quite a few friends along!  Ascension, the congregation I...

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10/1/2014 1:44:56 PM

From the desk of Pastor Kom…The Most Blessed Family in the World

The most blessed family in the world One of the privileges of being a pastor is being involved in the most important events in a family’s life: births, baptisms, serious illnesses, weddings, and deaths.  While the world watches these events from afar a pastor gets to come alongside...

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9/1/2014 6:42:06 PM

Relief from Suffering

Praise the Lord for summer in September! It is time now to put away the flip-flops and sandals and summer shoes. With all the walking and working in the summer you can find yourself with sand or pebbles in your summer foot wear. How many of you when you feel something in your shoe or sandal poking...

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8/1/2014 8:35:58 PM

God Gives Us Every Reason

We are finishing up our summer sermon series, Summer of Sanctification. We know that we have so many plans, so much to get done, so many things we want to happen in the summer, but many times our first inclination isn’t to include God and living for Him. So this summer we were reminded by...

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7/1/2014 12:59:27 PM

Freed From Sin

I would guess one of the more common themes for July newsletters would be that of freedom and the fourth of July. It is one of my more common themes looking back on past newsletters of my ministry. And it is once again this year. But we are going to look at it in a different light. The fourth of...

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6/2/2014 12:44:14 PM

Look Up!

On Ascension Day, 2014, the town of La Crescent was looking up. The Blue Angels were in town, and you couldn’t help but look up as the roar of the jets went by overhead. It was hard to look away from the magnificent display. A person could be filled with a number of different emotions. First...

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5/1/2014 8:18:46 PM

One Thing Necessary

As the eighth graders are getting ready for examination and the public affirmation of their faith, they have questions, what do they really need to know. In fact, that is a common question for anyone who is going to be examined, “what do I need to know?” After all their studying and...

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3/13/2014 10:32:51 AM

Lay Em Down (Psalm 32; 1 John 1:8,9)

When was silent I was wasting away My spirit would groan all day long My strength was sapped like a hot summer day Concealed in pride all my wrongs Content to hide all my wrongs Darkness can’t hide what the heart won’t release No potion to numb all the pain Drowning the past...

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2/1/2014 1:01:34 PM

Connections

Christ Jesus, who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us.   I had been thinking about Obi’s celebrity status. I was thinking about how many people are praying for him. I was thinking about how many people would...

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1/1/2014 1:55:57 PM

Be Amazed

There is nothing like a child’s amazement. It was one of those snowfalls that brought the amazement of a child, “Papa! Look at what I caught! It’s a snowflake! And you can see all its parts.” That’s a snowflake, I thought routinely. Surely my eight year old son had...

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