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Instead of or in addition to giving up chocolate this year, why not give up about 30 minutes an evening and read The Bible?  Click on the link below for an outline of Scripture texts to read each day. In only 40 days and only 6 days a week you’ll have read Genesis, Psalms, Isaiah prepared and the Gospels by Easter! © by Matthew Agee, 2014 2014 Lent Reading... more»

Transfiguration Sunday, March 2, 2014, Year A Exodus 24.12-18; Psalm 2; 2 Peter 1.16-21; Matthew 17.1-9 Pastor Renee Splichal Larson   Grace and peace to you from God our Father and our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. I was 20 years old when I experienced the most terrifying cloud of my life.  I was working at Flathead Lutheran Bible Camp in Northwest Montana for the summer and one thing this camp did was send out 5-7 camp counselors on “recon” trips into the wilderness to make... more»

Sixth Sunday after Epiphany, Year A, Feb. 16, 2014 Deut. 30.15-20; Psalm 119.1-8; 1 Cor. 3.1-9; Matt. 5.21-37 Pastor Renee Splichal Larson   Grace and peace to you from God our Father and our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.  Amen. I have been thinking a lot about what it means to live, to exist, to have consciousness; that I am alive and I know it and so are you.  It is clear to me that I did not dream myself up and give myself life.  My being came from something else, this One I might... more»

Fifth Sunday after Epiphany February 9, 2014 Matthew 5:13-20 Peder Stenslie I talked with Bill Bicknell this week about his old Golden Retriever named Jooncie.  Now that’s not the same dog that many of you have met out in the parking lot last summer.  That’s a young Golden Retriever named Willow.  Jooncie is much older and has most of his life behind him now. Golden Retrievers were bred in Scotland long ago to track, flush and retrieve birds.  They are very intelligent, love water and... more»