Sermons from January 2016

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Let the Word be Heard

Download Life Guide It has been called our theme song, our mission statement, and even our “battle hymn.” (Although I have to say that last one may be a little dramatic.) Many times I have heard people say things like that about Hymn 293 in our hymnal, “God’s Word is our Great Heritage.” Reflecting on […]

Choose a Job you Love

Download Life Guide “Choose a job you love and you will never work a day in your life.” That is the old statement from Confucius, a Chinese philosopher that lived about 500 years before Christ. “Choose a job you love.” That is something that is hard for many of us to do, isn’t it? We […]

Looking for a Miracle?

Download Life Guide Dad is dying. It’s cancer. The doctors have done everything they can, but it looks like he only has a few months to live. The family believes in God. They pray confidently every day because they know who God is and what he has the power to do. “God…we need a miracle. […]

Christ appeared to save us

Download Life Guide Today is an interesting day here at church. Today marks the beginning of our observance of a new season of the church year we call Epiphany. Epiphany actually began this past Wednesday. 12 days after Christmas every year… for centuries… the Christian Church has remembered how the Magi came from a foreign […]

A Christmas gift worth keeping

Download Life Guide The past couple of weeks have been very busy for Michael Ringelsten. Who’s Michael Ringelsten you ask? He’s a guy who runs a massive operation outside of Chicago where he buys literally truckloads filled with returned merchandise that was ordered online… and he takes it and with an army of employees sorts […]