November 10, 2024 Newsletter
Hallelujah! Praise the Lord, O my soul! ~Psalm 146:1 Pastor’s Thoughts: By the time you read this, Election Day will be over. Now begins the task of living together and finding ways forward with the choices our community and country have made. Now is the...
November 3, 2024 Newsletter
The earth is the Lord’s and all that is in it, the world and those who dwell therein. ~Psalm 24:1 Pastor’s Thoughts: As we are all very aware, the 2024 election is next week. Tensions are high, and people are anxious. Someone recently asked me when I...
October 27, 2024 Newsletter
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. ~Psalm 46:1 Pastor’s Thoughts: I have often heard Lutherans referred to as the “frozen chosen.” The thinking behind this seems to be that while we love the Lord and are grateful for...
October 20, 2024 Newsletter
May the graciousness of the Lord our God be upon us; prosper the work of our hand prosper our handiwork. ~Psalm 90:17 Pastor’s thoughts:...
October 13, 2024 Newsletter
So teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts to wisdom. ~Psalm 90:12 If you would like to give to the ELCA Disaster Response...
October 6, 2024 Newsletter
O Lord our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! ~Psalm 8:9 Pastor’s Thoughts: I have always been something of a news junkie. Ever...
September 29, 2024 Newsletter
Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my strength and my redeemer. ~Psalm...
September 22, 2024 Newsletter
whoever welcomes me welcomes not me but the one who sent me ~Mark 9:37b Pastor was on vacation this week. Check back next week for Pastor’s...
September 15, 2024 Newsletter
Gracious is the Lord and righteous; our God is full of compassion. ~Psalm 116:5 Pastor’s Thoughts:...
September 8, 2024 Newsletter
Hallelujah! Praise the Lord, O my soul! Psalm 146:1 Rally Day! Sunday, September 8, 2024 Pastor’s Thoughts: I am...
September 1, 2024 Newsletter
Consider how the wild flowers grow ~Luke 12:27 The church office will be closed Monday September 2 for Labor Day. Pastor’s Thoughts: Yesterday, a number of...
August 25, 2024 Newsletter
Be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his power. ~Ephesians 6:10 Pastor’s Thoughts: As election season...
August 18, 2024 Newsletter
Turn from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it. ~Psalm 34:14 Pastor’s Thoughts: As I write this, we are deep into a hotly contested...
August 11, 2024 Newsletter
I will bless the Lord at all times; the praise of God shall ever be in my mouth. ~Psalm 34:1 Pastor’s Thoughts: As many of you know, I love to ride my bike. I ride as much as I can in...
August 4, 2024 Newsletter
You are near to all who call upon you, to all who call upon you faithfully. ~Psalm 145:18 One Service only this Sunday, August 4 at 10:30 a.m. Ragtime Rick followed by a potluck Pastor’s Thoughts: Last week, I wrote that at the ELCA Youth...
July 28, 2024 Newsletter
All your works shall praise you, O Lord, and your faithful ones shall bless you. ~Psalm 145:10 Pastor’s Thoughts As I write this, we have just...
July 21, 2024 Newsletter
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not be in want. Psalm 23:1 Pastor Brenda is on the youth mission trip with the youth this week. They...
July 14, 2024 Newsletter
Righteousness shall go before the Lord and shall prepare for God a pathway ~Psalm 85:13 Pastor’s Thoughts: It is early Sunday morning as...
July 7, 2024 Newsletter
To you I lift up my eyes, to you enthroned in the heavens. ~Psalm 123:1 For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters, only do not use...
June 30, 2024 Newsletter
Therefore my heart sings to you without ceasing; O Lord my God, I will give you thanks forever. Psalm 30:12 One service Sunday...
June 23, 2024 Newsletter
Give thanks to the Lord, for the Lord is good, for God’s mercy endures forever. ~Psalm 107:1 Pastor’s Thoughts: For many, church...
June 16, 2024 Newsletter
It is a good thing to give thanks to the Lord, to sing praise to your name, O Most High ~Psalm 92:1 Pastor’s Thoughts: As you know, at the 19 May...
June 9, 2024 Newsletter
Sing with joy to God our strength and raise a loud shout to the God of Jacob. ~Psalm 81:1 Pastor’s Thoughts: (Jesus said) “Come to me, all you who are...
June 2, 2024 Newsletter
Raise a song and sound the timbrel, the merry harp, and the lyre. ~Psalm 81:2 Pastor’s Thoughts: What uses your energy? On a daily basis, many...
May 26, 2024 Newsletter
O Lord, give strength to your people; give them, O Lord, the blessings of peace. ~Psalm 29:11 Pastor’s Thoughts: I have often...
May 19, 2024 Newsletter
Bless the Lord, O my soul. Hallelujah! ~Psalm 104:35b Pastor’s Thoughts: Life sometimes feels like perpetual motion, doesn't it? We move from this task to that task, from this...
May 12, 2024 Newsletter
For the Lord knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall be destroyed. ~Psalm 1:6 Pastor’s Thoughts: For where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there among them.—Matthew 18:20...
May 5, 2024 Newsletter
With trumpets and the sound of the horn shout with joy before the king, the Lord. ~Psalm 98:6 Pastor’s Thoughts: “Finally, beloved, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pleasing, whatever is commendable, if there is any...
April 28, 2024 Newsletter
Let those who seek the Lord give praise! May your hearts live forever! ~Psalm 22:26b Pastor’s Thoughts: As you may have read here or in other Grace places, Bishop Daniel Beaudoin has designated 2024 as a...
April 21, 2024 Newsletter
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not be in want. ~Psalm 23:1 Pastor’s Thoughts: As I write this, it is early Sunday morning. I am the only one here in the church building, as we are still a little while away...
April 14, 2024 Newsletter
In peace, I will lie down and sleep; for you alone, O Lord, make me rest secure. ~Psalm 4:8 As I write this, it is the eve of the total solar eclipse. The last time there was an eclipse of this magnitude I was in elementary school. I remember...
April 7, 2024 Newsletter
How good and how pleasant it is, when kindred live together in unity! ~Psalm 133:1 Pastor’s Thoughts: In seminary, I learned that Martin Luther was not a fan of the Letter of James in the New Testament. Luther believed James placed too much emphasis on...
March 31, 2024 Newsletter
This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. ~Psalm 118:24 The church office is closed Monday...
March 24, 2024 Newsletter
and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. ...
March 17, 2024 Newsletter
Restore to me the joy of your salvation and sustain me with your bountiful Spirit. ~Psalm 5:12...
March 10, 2024 Newsletter
Give thanks to the Lord, for the Lord is good, for God’s mercy endures forever. ~Psalm 107:1 Pastor’s Thoughts: Walk into a coffee shop, and you are likely to hear people asking for such things as a “Double shot,...
March 3, 2024 Newsletter
The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky proclaims its maker’s handiwork. ~Psalm 19:1 Pastor’s Thoughts: There...
February 25, 2024 Newsletter
For dominion belongs to the Lord, who rules over the nations. ~Psalm 22:28 Pastor’s Thoughts: I have a yearly Lenten tradition. I choose one of the 66 books of the...
February 18, 2024 Newsletter
To you, O Lord, I lift up my soul. ~Psalm 25:1 Pastor’s thoughts: For God so loved the world that he gave his only...
February 11, 2024 Newsletter
For it is the God who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. ~2 Corinthians 4:6 Pastor’s Thoughts: Yesterday in worship at 9:30 a.m. Janet...
February 4, 2024 Newsletter
Hallelujah! How good it is to sing praises to our God! How pleasant it is to honor God with praise! ~Psalm 147:1 At Grace, we will begin a 6-week...
January 28, 2024 Newsletter
Hallelujah! I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart ~Psalm 111:1a Sunday, January 28, one service only at 10:30 followed by a Congregational meeting which will then be followed by a potluck in Brenner Hall. Pastor’s Thoughts: This...
January 21, 2024 Newsletter
God alone is my rock and my salvation, my stronghold, so that I shall never be shaken ~Psalm 62:6 Next Sunday, January 28, one service only...
January 14, 2024 Newsletter
Lord, you have searched me out; O Lord, you have known me. ~Psalm 139:1 Bless the World: be God's Grace!Pastor’s...
January 7, 2024 Newsletter
In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth…….. ~Genesis 1:1 Pastor’s Thoughts As I write this, it is the fourth day of Christmas. Except for mammoth sales and some people still off work, everything seems pretty much back to normal. But Christ has been...
December 31, 2023 Newsletter
Hallelujah! Praise the Lord from the heavens; praise God in the heights. ~Psalm 148:1 The office will be closed Monday January 1, 2024 No Wednesday evening service December 27 Sunday, December 31, one service only at 9:30 a.m....
December 24, 2023 Newsletter
My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord, my spirit rejoices in God my Savior… ~Luke 1.46b-47 Sunday, December 24, Advent Service 9:30 a.m. (one service only) Sunday, December 24, Christmas Eve services 3:00 p.m. and...
December 17, 2023 Newsletter
Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. ~1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 Pastor’s Thoughts Christmas came just two months after my mother died. That year, I went to set up our...
December 10, 2023 Newsletter
Righteousness shall go before the Lord and shall prepare for God a pathway. Psalm 85:13 Pastor’s Thoughts: As I write this, Americans seem...
December 3, 2023 Newsletter
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. ~1 Corinthians 1:3 Pastor’s Thoughts: Advent begins this Sunday, 3 December. I love this season of the Church year. I enjoy the scripture readings, the blue paraments on the altar,...