I am always struck by the measurements that scientists are able to make and then declare as fact. For example, those who are attending our Wednesday evening Advent classes will remember from last Wedn...  Read More

It had been a rough year for Zechariah. It all had started out so well. Zechariah was a priest serving in the division of Abijah. In Israel there were 24 divisions of priests corresponding with the 24...  Read More

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

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

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

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

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