Do you ever feel like something is “off?” Off-center or off-balance? Like you are going through the motions with no real purpose?
(more…)Archive for August, 2021
Pentecost 14, August 29, 2021
Posted in Uncategorized on August 30, 2021| Leave a Comment »
Pentecost 13, August 22, 2021
Posted in Uncategorized on August 25, 2021| Leave a Comment »
Lots of us struggle with the idea of eternity. It’s hard to wrap your head around the idea of something going on and on and never ending. Especially for kids, it can actually be kind of frightening. Eternal things are hard for us to imagine. I don’t know if I’m scared about it, but I’m not sure I’m actually comforted by the whole idea either. In fact perhaps in our minds it’s at best something we don’t fully expect to understand until we get to heaven. Or, worse, perhaps it seems to us like just a religious fantasy.
(more…)Pentecost 12, August 15, 2021
Posted in Uncategorized on August 16, 2021| Leave a Comment »
As we grow older, we hope to become wiser. Going to school is certainly part of the process of growing in knowledge, but wisdom isn’t learned in books. We gain wisdom through our experiences. And often through unpleasant ones. It is said that experience comes from what we have done; wisdom comes from what we have done badly.
(more…)Pentecost 11, August 8, 2021
Posted in Uncategorized on August 16, 2021| Leave a Comment »
A movie is being made about your life! Who would you choose to play YOU?
Undoubtedly you’re going to pick someone who makes you look good. And someone everyone admires and adores. You’d probably choose someone who could imitate your movements, your facial expressions, your Minnesota accent?? You’ll want someone who can embody the best of YOU!
(more…)Pentecost 10, August 1, 2021
Posted in Uncategorized on August 1, 2021| Leave a Comment »
I’ve been going mission trips with our Grace of God youth for 16 years! And it never fails that for the first 30 minutes after we arrive at each site, right after that show us where we’ll be sleeping for the week and we blow up our air mattresses and get set up, I have this moment where I look around and think: “This is gross. I can’t do this. There are too many of us crowded in here. And it’s going to be too hot or too cold and I’m not going to be able to sleep. And I’m ready to go home.” This year was no exception. But this year there was another 30 minute period of time – at the end of the trip – that I wished would never end.
(more…)
Pastor Jon's Sermon Blog 