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Finding Our Hope
December 1st, 2024
Do you ever feel like life is out of whack, out of control, and you – you, the one who is supposed to be the living model of what it means to be in control is in actuality living a life that is a hot ...  Read More
by Pastor Jim Szeyller
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Grateful for Grace
November 24th, 2024
One of the things that happens as one gets older is that age can bring perspective. I say “can bring” because we are all captives of the moment, of the immediate, of whatever is going on right now. Bu...  Read More
by Pastor Jim Szeyller
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An Overwhelming Expression
November 17th, 2024
I was sitting in a macro-economics class in college. You see, as a Vet. on the G.I. Bill, I had to declare my major at the very beginning of my college studies. And I, trying to decide if Becky’s dad ...  Read More
by Pastor Jim Szeyller
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What is at the Center?
November 13th, 2024
John Ortberg, in his book Faith & Doubt, tells the story of a woman named Sheryl that went to a salon to have her nails manicured. As the beautician began to work, they began to have a good conversati...  Read More
by Pastor Jim Szeyller
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Battling Images
November 3rd, 2024
We find ourselves in the midst of a tremendously contentious political season. Whether the contest that one looks at is local, state, or national it seems as though fear, and the absolute destruction ...  Read More
by Pastor Jim Szeyller
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A New Job Title
October 27th, 2024
We have been thinking together, really since August, about what it means to be a missional church, working in the kingdom of God, living in a deep relationship with God and committed to living into Go...  Read More
by Pastor Jim Szeyller
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Time to Harvest
October 20th, 2024
It is easy to get discouraged these days as we think about the future of the church. Those that study these things tells us that only 20% of Americans report that they attend church weekly. What’s hap...  Read More
by Pastor Jim Szeyller
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A Voice from Heaven
October 13th, 2024
20 plus years ago, here at LNPC, a letter went out to the members of the congregation announcing a 2-year Bethel Bible Study training class led by Dee Hazen. I was interested but I was new to the chu...  Read More
by Pastor Sara McCurdy
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Shining What Light
October 6th, 2024
No, you are not imagining things. With the exception of the last three verses – verses that speak to believers as the light of the world, as lights meant to shine out into the world – yes, this is exa...  Read More
by Pastor Jim Szeyller
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A Call to Shine
September 29th, 2024
It was a beautiful, cloudless, blue-sky day in April. School only had two more months and then Summer would become our new classroom; but that was still in the future - although it was becoming tantal...  Read More
by Pastor Jim Szeyller
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The Church Needs a Reset
September 22nd, 2024
Okay, let’s just say it. That was a ridiculously long second reading, wasn’t it? I mean, c’mon. Give us a few verses, tell us a funny story, a few religious thoughts, then let’s pray and get on with t...  Read More
by Pastor Jim Szeyller
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Who Do You Say That I Am?
September 15th, 2024
It’s been decades since we first began hearing the term post-Christian nation.  My guess is that most Christian church attenders did not like hearing that our nation is entering a post-Christian Era. ...  Read More
by Pastor Sara McCurdy
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