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Mark 5:21-43 Pastor Chris Tweitmann

Psalm 80 Sermon by Rocky Allen

Philippians 2:1-11 Pastor Chris Tweitmann

Luke 2:1-20 Pastor Chris Tweitmann

Isaiah 61:1-9 Pastor Chris Tweitmann As we move ever closer to the arrival of Christmas, the volume begins to be turned up on the songs of the season. Christmas music fills our ears as we step into elevators and walk through grocery stores and shopping malls. Christmas music reverberates from the radios in our cars […]

Galatians 4:1-7 Pastor Chris Tweitmann Waiting is hard. In today's world of instant gratification – of fast food, express service, speed dating, instant credit, immediate, and online banking, having to wait feels a lot like doing nothing – like a waste of our time. In our “on-demand,” Amazon Prime society where everything happens at the […]

Deuteronomy 18:15-22 Pastor Chris Tweitmann We're in the second week of the Advent season – the church's countdown to Christmas, if you will, albeit at a much slower and intentionally reflective pace than the rest of the world. As a means of preparation for Jesus to born anew in our life and community together, the sermon […]

Genesis 3:1-15 Pastor Chris Tweitmann Ready or not, it's that time of year once again. No, I'm not talking about Christmas. We still have – count them – 29 days left until Christmas. I'm talking about – ‘tis the season – of Advent. “Advent” is Latin that means “a coming or an arrival.” It is season […]

John 6:25-35 Pastor Chris Tweitmann

Luke 22:24-27 Pastor Chris Tweitmann

John 11:17-26 Pastor Chris Tweitmann

John 15:1-8 Pastor Chris Tweitmann

John 14:1-6 Pastor Chris Tweitmann

John 10:11-18 Pastor Chris Tweitmann

Luke 17:11-19 Pastor Marv Coombs

Acts 2:42-47 Pastor Chris Tweitmann with guests Joel Kelly from Radiant Lutheran and Jeremy Celentano from Activate Church

John 10:1-10 Pastor Chris Tweitmann with guest Pastor Drew Williams

John 9:1-7 Pastor Chris Tweitmann

John 3:1-15 Pastor Chris Tweitmann

Luke 10:1-11 Pastor Drew Williams How many of you have tried to put something together without the instructions? Maybe it was a piece of furniture, or maybe it was a toy for a child. Maybe you had lost the instructions, or maybe you were just of the opinion that you “could figure it out just […]

Luke 9:57 – 62 Pastor Chris Tweitmann Life is about making decisions. Some are simple and obvious. Some can be more challenging for us. But no matter what, every day we cannot avoid making decisions – both small and big. Choices that have consequences. And it's not just about the decisions we anticipate having to […]

Luke 9:49-56 Pastor Chris Tweitmann Us versus them.  When phrased like this – in opposition to each other – these two seemingly innocuous pronouns become the two most dangerous words in our human vocabulary.  “Us” versus “them.”  At times, the impulse to choose sides feels instinctive to us. While not always intentional or malicious, we […]

Luke 9:45-48 Pastor Chris Tweitmann These days, there is a lot of talk about being the G.O.A.T. Not the furry, sometimes shrieking animal spotted on farms and sometimes on viral memes and YouTube videos.  G.O.A.T., the acronym. The Greatest Of All Time. Many sports fans have crowned the NFL quarterback, Tom Brady, as the GOAT […]

Luke 9:37-45 Pastor Drew Williams Last summer, when my daughter, Emmy, was only two and half years old, we took her to her first little amusement park, Adventure City. And she rode all the little rides, but she is a thrillseeker and pointed to the biggest ride in the park, the roller coaster, and begged […]

Luke 9:28-36 Pastor Drew Williams When I was young, my favorite toys to play with were Legos. There's something about getting a new Lego set, opening the box, pulling out all the pieces, and then following the instructions to make the thing that is on the front of the box. And after you've completed it, […]

Luke 9:23-27 Pastor Chris Tweitmann Today's message is the second of two parts based on a pivotal conversation Jesus had with his first disciples. It's a conversation that began with a question – a question asked by Jesus. After initially asking about the consensus opinion of the crowds as to his identity, Jesus pivots and […]

Luke 9:18-22 Pastor Chris Tweitmann Life is full of questions. I mean that literally. Have we ever stopped and noticed how many questions that we ask or answer on any given day? Questions asking for information. What are you doing? Where are you going? Questions asking for clarification. What did you mean by that? Questions […]

A combined service with Radiant Lutheran Church and Activate Church, listen to 3 pastors teaming up to answer questions from the audience surrounding Jesus feeding the 5,000.

Luke 9:1-9 Pastor Drew Williams Megan and I love to travel, and before we had kids, we experienced many amazing and unique places together. Now that we have kids, our traveling has slowed down a bit, but it's not because we don't still want to see amazing places. It's because kids make the hardest part […]

Luke 8:40-56 Pastor Drew Williams I've recently been thinking about Disneyland, and Megan and I were talking about trying to take our kids there. Now, I love Disneyland, but it's been a few years since I've gone, and I'm honestly a bit FEARFUL of what the experience will be like with two small kids. I […]

Luke 8:26-39 Pastor Chris Tweitmann Have you ever heard the expression, “Out of the frying pan and into the fire?” It means to go from a bad situation into a situation that is even worse. One could argue it is a fitting description of what happens next as we turn to our next passage in the Gospel […]

Luke 8:22-25 Pastor Chris Tweitmann We all receive gifts on various occasions and for different reasons. Some gifts we are given are extended to us for a specific purpose – in anticipation of a time when they will be most needed. A fire extinguisher. An emergency flashlight. A first-aid kit. You get the idea. Now, […]

Luke 8:16-21 Pastor Drew Williams Have you ever been given a gift that you didn't know what to do with? I asked this question on Facebook this week and got a couple good responses. Cynthia Galli got seven tea kettles for her wedding, even though she and John didn't drink tea. My friend Jeff got […]

Luke 8:4-15 Pastor Drew Williams When I was a kid, my mom tried to plant a papaya tree in our yard. Have you ever had a papaya? It's a delicious fruit, similar to a melon, that is orange and sweet. My dad used to have some almost every morning with his breakfast. So my mom […]

Luke 7:36-8:3 Pastor Drew Williams This last week, I was talking to a friend about watches, because mine had recently started to not work as well, and so I was asking him about different types of watches, smart watches, normal watches, because he has way better fashion sense than me. And so I was going […]

Luke 7:18-35 Pastor Drew Williams When I was growing up, we went on a lot of roadtrips, so I have lots of memories in the backseat of a little two-door Toyota, looking out the window at some stretch of highway as my parents tried to navigate with their Rand McNally fold-out paper road atlas. Before […]

Luke 7:11-17 Pastor Chris Tweitmann If you were to ask me, as a pastor, what is the question you most often get asked about God, my answer would be some variation of the question, “Why does God allow suffering in the world?”  It's a common question because we all experience suffering in this world. It's an […]

Luke 7:1-10 Pastor Chris Tweitmann We find ourselves increasingly becoming a more and more polarized society – and not just as a world or a nation but even within our families and neighborhoods. The last few years of sheltering in place and social distancing have only intensified our innate tendency to exist in echo chambers that reinforce […]

Luke 6:43-49 Pastor Christ Tweitmann We've probably all heard the old saying, “The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.” This adage is stating what is often an observable fact, that a child usually mirrors the qualities and traits of their parent. In some cases, those traits are passed down genetically. For example, my son […]

Luke 24:36-49 Pastor Chris Tweitmann Happy Easter – finally! Easter Sunday this year is uncommonly late, falling on this date, April 17, for the first time in 62 years – since 1960. If perhaps we don't know why the date of Easter keeps moving year to year, centuries ago at what was known as the […]

Luke 23:50-56 Pastor Chris Tweitmann

Luke 22:54-62 Pastor Chris Tweitmann Luke 23:13-25 Pastor Drew Williams Luke 23:35-43 Pastor Joel Kelly

John 13:1-17 Pastor Mike Jobst Luke 22:14-23 Karl Kerner Luke 22:24-30 Cindy Glessner Luke 23:39-46 Pastor Marv Combs

Luke 19:28-48 Pastor Chris Tweitmann with guest, Pastor Joel Kelly

Luke 6:37-42 Pastor Chris Tweitmann A week ago, something unexpected happened near the end of the 94th Academy Awards – something made headlines beyond the standard entertainment reporting. The news involved an altercation between two celebrities over a joke told that caused more offense than laughter. Physical violence surprisingly resulted. Tears subsequently fell and apologies – to an extent […]

Luke 6:27-36 Pastor Drew Williams Do you remember the show that used to be on TV, “Kids Say the Darndest Things?” I used to love that show, because you'd always have these little kids, probably 4 or 5 years old, and their parents had gotten them all dressed up really well and they all just […]

Luke 6:12-26 Pastor Chris Tweitmann Fun fact. If we were to head out together towards the North Pole and we relied on a compass as our guide, we could wind up as far as 590 miles off course. This is because the needle of a compass points towards the magnetic north pole and not the geographic north […]

Luke 5:33-39 Pastor Chris Tweitmann If you've ever been a part of a wedding party in the United States and Europe, you may have heard someone tell the bride she needs “something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue” for her wedding day. This popular tradition, driving many wedding parties to make an effort to add something old […]

Luke 6:1-11 Pastor Drew Williams I don't know how many of you have had the new Disney movie, Encanto, on repeat at your house. It has become a fast favorite in our house, and so I think I may have seen the movie at least four or five times a week for the past few […]

Joel 2:1-2, 12-17 Pastor Chris Tweitmann

Luke 5:27-32 Pastor Drew Williams There are two types of people: those who keep a safe distance, and those who do not. Now, you might be thinking you are one or the other, but it usually depends on the situation, doesn't it? If you see a big dog approaching you, you might be the kind […]