I hope that these reflections will bring some inspiration and spiritual encouragement to you this week.
   Blessings and Peace, Pastor Dave
 
“DO NOT BE AFRAID,” just like “you are forgiven,” are needed companions throughout our lives. We strive to be faithful followers, to be strong and bold in vocation. ...

Friends in Christ,   May these reflections help provide you with some inspiration in your faith and food for further thought.
Blessings, Pastor Dave
 
This reflection is particularly appropriate since the season of Christmastide has ended.
 
The Work of Christmas
Howard Thurman
 
When the song of the angels is ...

 Dear Friends in Christ,
 
Thanks to all who attended the All Saints day worship and potluck afterwards.   It was an inspiring morning.    
I hope that these reflections give you some spiritual food for thought and some guidance in your faith journey this week.--  Blessings, Pastor Dave
 
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Dear Friends in Christ,
This stretch of weather we have been having is a reminder to me of why the fall is probably my favorite season. I hope that these reflections will help to encourage you and guide you in your spiritual walk this week. May your eyes be opened a little wider to the wonders of God's presence around and within you.
Blessings ...

Dear Friends in Christ,
Those of you who were not at Family Fun day Sunday, Sept 9th,  missed out on a grand celebration and a lot of fun.  Three cheers for the amazing youth band, Soundwaves, from Stillwaters Church in Jackson, WI. What a tremedous witness they are through their music.

I hope and pray that the reflections below ...

There are some Sunday's in our summer schedule in which I will be open to your suggestions on a particular scripture
or topic that you would like to hear expounded in a sermon. I did get one topic yesterday on the reality of heaven
and the afterlife. I will try to incorporate your thoughts and ideas into a sermon or series of sermons.

I hope ...

Wednesday, March 21st
Mark 10:17-31 (Comments on Lent for Everyone by N.T. Wright)

    The story about Jesus’ encounter with the rich man often makes many of us squirm. In a number of Bible studies that I have led on this passage, the discussion will always seem to focus on how unfair and unrealistic Jesus’ demand was...

Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Mark 10:1-12 (Comments on Lent for Everyone by N.T. Wright)

     This passage which includes Jesus’ words on divorce are very troubling words. Divorcees that I have spoken to and counseled with through the years understand this scripture simply as one of condemnation. I quite frankly don’t...

Monday- March 19, 2012
Mark 9:33-40 (Comments on Lent for Everyone by N.T. Wright)

     Parents can get pretty frustrated when their children just don't seem to understand the lessons and values they are trying to teach and instill in them. Children are told to do a particular task and then when a parent approaches them ...

Wednesday- Day 19
Mark 7:24-29 (Comments on Lent for Everyone by N.T. Wright)

    Today’s scripture of the encounter between Jesus and the Gentile woman of Syrophoenician origin is one of Jesus’ hard and difficult sayings. A woman approaches Jesus and pleads with him to heal her demon possessed daughter. Jesus ...

Tuesday- Day 18
Mark 7:14-23 (Comments on Lent for Everyone by N.T. Wright)

Jesus tells the crowd in this passage that there is nothing that can go into a person from the outside that will make them unclean. Jesus is referring to the Jewish food laws that he and the disciples chose not to follow. Wright refers to the food laws as signposts. The...

Monday- Day 17
Mark 7:1-13 (Comments on Lent for Everyone by N.T. Wright)

The Gospels contain numerous stories in which the Pharisees confront, question and oppose Jesus. Based on Jesus’ quote from Isaiah, “they honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me”, we might conclude that the Pharisees were nothing but...

Friday- Day 15
Mark 6:45-52 (Comments on Lent for Everyone by N.T. Wright)

     It never seems to fail. You have just experienced a spiritual high; things are coming together for you and then all of a sudden you’re facing a problem. The disciples had just witnessed Jesus feeding a multitude of people. It was mind ...

 Jesus’ feeding of the multitude with food Thursday- Day 14
Mark 6:30-44 (Comments on Lent for Everyone by N.T. Wright)

Our ability to use our minds to think critically and to reason is a wonderful gift from God. God’s gift of reason enables us to think through theological issues with deeper clarity and integrity. Reason gives ...

Wednesday- Day 13
Mark 6:14-29 (Comments on Lent for Everyone by N.T. Wright)

The rather detailed and saucy story of the death of John the Baptist seems to be a strange interruption in the flow of Mark's Gospel. Up this to point, the focus has been on Jesus and his many healings. One thing that we should keep in mind when reading the Gospel ...