Being called to speak truth to power is going to require the food that strengthens.

Twice in Exodus 16, the question is asked, "What are we?"That's the question Pastor Ryan asks you today!

God is calling you by name! He even sends shephereds to call you back to the fold!

God wants to give us good, but we often bite the hand that feeds us!Pastor Ryan shares the concluding message in the "Letter to the Church in America" series.

It isn't extraordinary people who proclaim the love of God around the world - well, that's not quite true.

There have been some extraordinary people who have done so - Billy Graham, Walter A. Maier, Bishop Sheen.

But the love of God - both calling out sin and proclaiming the Savior from sin - has been proclaimed by a vast number of otherwise ordinary men, women and children.

This message continues the series "Letter to the Church in America" from St. Matthew Lutheran Church.

In America we have "freedom of speech" - pretty much our calling card - it's the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution!

The Church has the freedom (from God) to proclaim His Word to the nation(s).

But what will the Church do with that freedom in the United States.

This is the first in a series of messaged called "A Letter to the Church in America."

God gives gifts and that is grace.

God gives us the power to use His gifts and that is grace.

God changes people when we use His gifts and that is grace.

This was a special message for the Commissioning and Installation of Brittany Johnson as Youth & Family Minister at St. Matthew Lutheran Church.

The speaker is the Rev. Dr. Kurt Taylor, Associate Professor at Concordia University Wisconsin.

There is something special about the beginning of day, at sunrise.

Maybe you are not a "morning" person. But Jesus was - and is - and God's mercies are also new every morning!

Life is full of storms.

Sometimes the storms are of our own making - immoral lifestyle choices or self-harm choices.

Sometimes the storms just come without anything done on our part.

Regardless, Jesus calms the storms - or, if He doesn't do that He calms our hearts in the midst of the storms!

Pastor Blonski shares a message of boundless hope for those going through the storms of life.

What happens between planting a seed and reaping a harvest?

Pastor Ryan shares a message of hope about the mysterious middle part of sowing and reaping.

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