by John Schofield | May 1, 2018 | April 2018, Blog, Pastor's Pen
April 7, 2018 Bitterness is like cancer when it enters into a Christian’s life. It spreads throughout one’s being and cripples them for service for the Christ. It not only incarcerates their spirit into selfish bondage, it contaminates those they come into contact...
by John Schofield | Mar 27, 2018 | Blog, March 2018, Pastor's Pen
March 27th, 2018 When I was just a wee lad, my younger brother got a rock polisher for Christmas. His interest in rocks came about because of a Lutheran pastor in our neighborhood in St. Croix Falls, WI. He would take Jim on hikes along gravel roads to look for...
by John Schofield | Mar 12, 2018 | Blog, March 2018, Pastor's Pen
March 12, 2018 Winter seems to want to hang on. Sometimes, trials and difficulties seem like a winter that will never end sapping our vitality and darkening our emotions like an octopus with sticky tentacles and suction cups wrapping around our souls. But when...
by John Schofield | Feb 20, 2018 | Blog, February 2018, Pastor's Pen
February 20, 2018 “Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.” (Ps. 51:7). Snow is likened by David as a clean contrast to the depravity of the sin he asked God to forgive him for. David, a man after God’s own heart, yet in a...
by John Schofield | Feb 5, 2018 | Blog, February 2018, Pastor's Pen
February 5, 2018 I was able watch the second half of the Super Bowl after church Sunday night. The Packers were not in the game nor were my arch nemesis – the Minnesota Vikings (I am a Packer fan in MN as I grew up in WI watching the Pack with my Dad as a kid),...
by John Schofield | Jan 24, 2018 | Blog, January 2018, Pastor's Pen
January 22, 2018 Psalm 147: 1 Praise ye the Lord: For it is good to sing praises unto our God; For it is pleasant; and praise is comely…16 He giveth snow like wool: He scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes. 17 He casteth forth his iice like morsels: Who can stand...
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