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Best laid plans

Pastoral Messages | March 27, 2025

When my boy scout troop went on camping trips, the top priority for us middle and high school boys was to find the nearest field. A wide-open field, preferably with tufts of tall grass to hide in, was the essential element to our favorite night-time…

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The Darkness of Daylight Saving Time (or Not)

Pastoral Messages | March 17, 2025

Daylight Saving Time has taken many forms and has been an on-again, off-again thing in countries around the world. Currently, about one-third of all countries have some form of it. What doesn’t vary across all those stories is the disagreement that i…

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Practicing Faith

Pastoral Messages | March 13, 2025

  My fourth-grade son began playing the cello this fall. Every week, he gets a lesson from a brilliant and dedicated teacher during his school day. It’s a remarkable and life-giving gift to form him and his Davenport Community School District cl…

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Light for the way

Pastoral Messages | March 6, 2025

If you live anywhere near the Midwest, you’ve likely enjoyed some time outside over the past week or two. While this winter has been relatively mild, there have been some weeks of frigid temperatures, blasts of arctic cold, and a few snowstorms sprin…

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Love and mercy

Pastoral Messages | February 27, 2025

One day not too long ago, as I drove my daughter to her dance lessons, we pulled up next to a car at a stop light. I noticed as we approached that their gas tank door was open (who hasn’t been there at least once?). Trying to be kind, I tried to get…

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A new journey

Pastoral Messages | February 20, 2025

I’m going on a journey, and I’m starting today. My head is wet, and I’m on my way. Christ’s mark is on me; it’s on you, too; It says he loves me, and he loves you, too! “I’m Going on a Journey” Text by Kenneth D. Larkin and Music by Edward V. Bonneme…

4

Dance party

Pastoral Messages | February 13, 2025

I have a friend who recently worked as a long-term substitute music teacher in an elementary school. She not only brought a deep love of music and a big heart for children to this job, but a whole lot of creativity. I loved hearing how she fostered a…

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We the people

Pastoral Messages | February 3, 2025

There are certain words used so often in our daily vocabulary that we can easily forget what they actually mean. Or they slip into our everyday conversations without particular attention to their importance. Take, for instance, the simple significanc…

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Swicy

Pastoral Messages | January 30, 2025

I love a good portmanteau, you know, those words that are a mashup, a combination of two other words. I’m not sure if I am fond of them because they sound ridiculous or because it takes some level of creativity to make a good one.  I mean, who doesn’…

2

Looking forward and backward

Pastoral Messages | January 22, 2025

January. It would be easy this week to believe that the name of this month derives from some foreign language in which it means, “so cold your eyelashes can freeze and break off.” In fact, it does come from a foreign culture. In ancient Rome, Janus w…

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Faith Maintenance

Pastoral Messages | January 16, 2025

I only recently discovered that “the doldrums” is an official nautical term, referring to an area around the equator where there is little to no wind for sailing. Sailors often avoided this area for fear of being stranded without supplies in the midd…

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Impulsive generosity

Pastoral Messages | January 9, 2025

Impulsiveness is generally looked upon as a negative trait. We tend to honor thoughtful and intentional actions, moves that have been carefully planned. Acting on impulse is often seen as hasty, reckless, and immature. But, for the last few months, I…

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Worship Aug 30 & 31

Season after Pentecost

sat 5:00 pm Maddy Tyler preaching
sun 8:00 am Maddy Tyler preaching
sun 9:00 am Maddy Tyler preaching
sun 11:15 am Maddy Tyler preaching

Worship Sep 6 & 7

Season after Pentecost

sat 5:00 pm Mark Niethammer preaching
sun 8:00 am Mark Niethammer preaching
sun 9:00 am Mark Niethammer preaching
sun 11:15 am Mark Niethammer preaching

Worship Sep 13 & 14

Season after Pentecost

sat 5:00 pm Sara Olson-Smith preaching
sun 8:00 am Sara Olson-Smith preaching
sun 9:00 am Sara Olson-Smith preaching
sun 11:15 am Sara Olson-Smith preaching

Worship Sep 20 & 21

Season after Pentecost

sat 5:00 pm Katy Warren preaching
sun 8:00 am Katy Warren preaching
sun 9:00 am Katy Warren preaching
sun 11:15 am Katy Warren preaching

Worship Sep 27 & 28

Season after Pentecost

sat 5:00 pm Maddy Tyler preaching
sun 8:00 am Maddy Tyler preaching
sun 9:00 am Maddy Tyler preaching
sun 11:15 am Maddy Tyler preaching

Worship Oct 4 & 5

Season after Pentecost

sat 5:00 pm Sara Olson-Smith preaching
sun 8:00 am Sara Olson-Smith preaching
sun 9:00 am Sara Olson-Smith preaching
sun 11:15 am Sara Olson-Smith preaching

Worship Oct 8

Golden Agers

wed 10:30 am Peter Pettit preaching
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