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SERMONETTE: There is good use of power
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SERMONETTE: There is good use of power

  • By the Dr. Tim Vanden Langenberg

2018 was my retirement year from umpiring baseball. I started the summer following my junior year of high school. Over those 42 years, I learn…

SERMONETTE: Let’s get to know our neighbors
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SERMONETTE: Let’s get to know our neighbors

  • Jesus told many parables about farmers going out to sow seed. One of them comes from Mark 4:26-29: “He also said, ‘The kingdom of God is as if someone would scatter seed on the ground, and would sleep and rise night and day, and the seed would sprout and grow, he does not know how. The earth produces of itself, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head. But when the grain is ripe, at once he goes in with his sickle, because the harvest has come.’”

As our city emerges from the days of the coronavirus, I want to encourage you all. Start scattering your time, your energy, and your emotions.…

SERMONETTE: Strength and comfort in tragedy
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SERMONETTE: Strength and comfort in tragedy

  • These last days and weeks, we have watched with careful attention the events unfolding in Ukraine, somewhat in disbelief that this can happen. We are heartbroken for the people and the suffering they are enduring. In our hearts, we wonder, how can this stop and how can justice and peace be restored? Something needs to happen, someone must step in, somehow, someone must do something. It is with a certain amount of helplessness that we watch ordinary citizens of Ukraine, interrupted in their everyday lives, suddenly need to seek shelter or take up arms to fend for their lives.

The Ukrainian people have been through a lot, the Second World War, the era of communism, the nuclear disaster of Chernobyl. It seems like the…