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Valentine’s Day is a wrap! Hopefully your loved one received some flowers, maybe a box of chocolates, a Valentine’s card with sweet nothings written on it. The vestiges of this holiday are still …
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By Peter Moen, Concord Church of Christ
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2/21/25
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Presuming it happens as planned, by the time this is read, Donald J. Trump will have taken the oath of office and begun his second term as President of the United States of America. U.S. Senator Amy …
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By Pastor Elliott R.C. Malm
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1/24/25
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At Praise Fellowship Church we have been developing a Christmas Theme with a Christmas Team. What I mean by a team is that as my wife Melanie and I have been serving together in Pastoral Ministry to …
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By Roger Langworthy, Pastor Praise Fellowship Church
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12/13/24
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When it comes to November, people often think about many events which happen during that month - deer hunting, high school football playoffs, Christmas shopping, and of course this year, the …
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By Pastor Dave Breederland, Faith Community Church of West Concord
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11/15/24
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Enough. It is a word that gets very little attention these days. Knowing that one has enough, however, is liberating. John C. Bogle was the late founder and CEO of The Vanguard Group, one of the …
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By Rev. Chad Christensen, Trinity Lutheran Church, West Concord and Dodge Center United Methodist Church
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10/18/24
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Nearly a generation has passed since September 11, 2001. But many Americans are old enough to remember the haunting images of the World Trade Center buildings engulfed in flames after hijacked …
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By Pastor Elliott R.C. Malm
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9/20/24
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My wife and I enjoy going out to eat with each other. I know, I know, normal, healthy couples do this all the time and it is called a DATE. But really, we enjoy going to good restaurants and …
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By Peter Moen, Concord Church of Christ
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8/23/24
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It was the Fall of 1985, and I knew that we would soon be starting a non-denominational church in my home town of Dodge Center. Growing up, the only thing we didn’t do in Dodge Center was attend …
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By Roger Langworthy, Praise Fellowship Church
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7/26/24
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Have you ever noticed that some people have a great skill at understating things? They may intentionally or unintentionally understate things. During the Apollo 13 mission, astronaut Jack Swigert …
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By Pastor Dave Breederland, Faith Community Church, West Concord
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6/21/24
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Eighty years ago, a man from the small town of Abilene, Kansas, was in Southern England about to make the biggest decision of his life. As Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces in …
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By Pastor Elliott Malm, Grace Lutheran Church, Dodge Center
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6/7/24
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All of us face the reality of life on earth coming to its end. Do you ever wonder about what comes after that? I know there are some that have had near death or temporary death experiences and have …
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By Pastor Roger Langworthy, Praise Fellowship Church
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4/19/24
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“The story of God’s self-sacrifice...is the story with a cross at its center but not at its end: its plot moves toward the upsetting of all things, the Great Reversal in which the dead Jesus was …
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By Pastor Dave Breederland, Faith Community Church
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3/18/24
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According to an article in the New York Times, scientific evidence has led people to believe that couples will eventually start to look like one another. Sounds crazy, right? Well, it might not …
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By Pastor Colleen Hoeft, South Troy Church
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3/8/24
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The Lord knows the widow at Zarephath and is aware of her needs
There was a great drought in the land at the time of Elijah’s visit to the widow at Zarephath in 1 Kings. This story bears …
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By Rev. Chad Christensen, Pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church, West Concord and Dodge Center United Methodist Church
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2/23/24
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My mom’s house has a sign in Swedish on the wall. My dad painstakingly cut its letters of wood, and painted it yellow and blue. It runs along the ceiling above the dining room table, and it reads: …
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By Rev. Karen R. Larson, Zwingli United Church of Christ, Berne
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1/22/24
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In the book Restoring Your Spiritual Passion, Gordon McDonald writes:
“One memory that burns deep within is that of a plane flight on which I was headed toward a meeting that would determine a …
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By Rev. Chad L. Christensen, Trinity Lutheran Church, West Concord
Dodge Center United Methodist Church
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11/18/23
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At this time of year, there are a lot of “must do” things. Farmers work long hours gathering their harvest. Then they have their post-harvest machinery clean up, repair, and storage. Other folks …
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Pastor Dave Breederland, Faith Community Church of West Concord
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10/10/23
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“Do not remember the former things
or consider the things of old.
I am about to do a new thing;
now it springs forth; do you not perceive it?
I will make a way in the wilderness
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By Rev. Karen R. Larson, Zwingli United Church of Christ at Berne
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9/16/23
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Have you ever noticed a door is essentially useless without the two hinges? Without the two hinges, the door just doesn’t work; it isn’t very useful; it doesn’t do what it is supposed to do. …
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By Peter Moen pastor of Concord Church of Christ
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8/14/23
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What breaks your heart? This is more than a bad day, or a break-up with your last date. What are those things that you are passionate about? Is it your family, your job, your hobbies, people in your …
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By Pastor Colleen Hoeft
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7/31/23
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