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Palm Sunday – Pastor Todd Olson
“Hosanna to the Son of David!” “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!” “Hosanna in the highest heaven!” I can almost imagine what it would have been like to experience this in person. I can imagine the crowds of people lining the dusty road and the palm...
St. Patrick’s Day – Pastor Jillian Hobbs
As many of you know this past Wednesday (March 17th) was St. Patrick’s Day, and I couldn’t help but think about how appropriate this is for the Lenten season. As St. Patrick’s day was coming about, I was thinking about a book that I read while in college. The book is...
Waiting Expectantly & Hopefully – Pastor Todd Olson
This week I have found myself reflecting on the last year. It was this time last year that the pandemic was starting to ramp up and we were seeing horror stories of virus spread and death. We were seeing a future for everyone that was potentially going to be...
Slow Cooking – Pastor Cindy Olson
Dear Friends, I read something this week that made me think. It’s from a book called Make It Happen. Author Lara Casey said. “There are lots of ways to get really busy and then be totally burned out. But there is only one path to purpose: Jesus. He wants us to commit...
Lenten Worship – Pastor Todd Olson
During Lent, we tend to focus on the self-denial or "giving something up" part of Lent. While that focus is certainly important, we often forget that the Sundays of Lent are feast days, where our self-denial and fasting are to be set aside to focus on worship, but do...
Reaching Others – Pastor Jillian Hobbs
Lately I have been thinking of a friend of mine. This girl in no way would ever call herself Christian, yet my friend grew up in the Church. She would read her Bible and pray daily and go to church whenever it was open. She was an active member of her church, but when...