Worship by Pastor Bill Chadwick | April 12, 2020 Welcome Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! Welcome to folks from both churches and others from around the world. I had a delightful phone chat with Jan Cottrell the other day. She had just come inside from being out in her yard raking and wheelbarrowing. …
Maundy Thursday Meditation
Dear Friends, Today, April 9, is Maundy Thursday. It is not “Monday Thursday,” as I thought when I was a child. Nor is it Maunday Thursday, as it is so often misspelled, but Maundy Thursday. The word “maundy” comes from the Latin mandatum, which means commandment, referring to Jesus’ command to love one another. In…
Palm Sunday Service
Sermon by Pastor Bill Chadwick | April 5, 2020 Luke 19:29-40 Natalie is the only person I know personally who has experienced Covid-19. Natalie was a little girl in the congregation I served 20 years ago. Today Natalie is 26 and living in South Korea teaching English. Natalie was infected with Covid-19, was hospitalized, received…
We’re In This Boat Together
Sermon by Reverend Dr. John Mann | March 29, 2020 A few weeks ago, I told Lindsay to keep an eye for the bear that was seen close to her bus stop. Here in Duluth we live in bear country. The bears are waking up from their winter slumber. I appreciate seeing bears from a…
Hopeful Outcomes
Not everyone gets to see the hopeful outcome. But making a hopeful investment in the future insures that the hopeful outcome actually comes to pass. That’s the way God’s economy operates. The investment we make into hope is an act of faith. It takes faith to sign on to hope. The assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things unseen.
In Answer to a Seven Year Old
March 15, 2020
For me the reality of human suffering does not call into question the existence of God. For me the question becomes – How do we connect with God in the midst of suffering? Usually, it is with the less said the better.
Remember Who You Are
Sermon by Reverend Dr. John Mann | March 8, 2020 Luke 4:1-13 Why do people do the things they do? Maybe because we aren’t robots; our behavior isn’tprogrammed; we have such a wide variety of choices. We hear that Jesus was tested as we are. On one level we accept that because it is part…
What? Me Judge?
March 1, 2020
God created us, claimed us as Her children, loves us beyond even a motherly love, forgives us…restores us. May we then respond with our own worship and service…in the continuing story…of grace…of forgiveness…of love.
This is the Light
When Jesus took his followers up to the mountain top and they saw him shining from within, maybe what he was trying to show them was, “This is how God sees me. When I came up out of the water that day I was baptized and I heard the voice of God say, ‘you are my beloved child in whom I pleasure.’ this inner light I showed you is the light I recognized in myself. This is who I am.”
Precise Words
And we have the promise of Jesus in Matthew 11:28: “Come to me, all you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest.”
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