An Overwhelming ExpressionMatthew 26: 6 – 13John 12: 2 – 8November 17, 2024I 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 ve...  Read More

What Is At The Center?Genesis 3: 1 - 5John 13: 31 – 35Nov. 10, 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. A...  Read More

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

My father came from a very poor family. His parents, my grandparents, came over from a part of northern Europe that was, until WWI, governed by the Germans. They came over in the late 1890s. He was a ...  Read More

I am thankful for a sermon written by the Rev. Dr. Don Aycock in which he writes about an experiment conducted with Processionary Caterpillars. Processionary Caterpillars are born from eggs planted on...  Read More